>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:56:51 -0400
>From: Nathan Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
?Subject: Re: Mersenne: Prime Net Server
>On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:56:34 +0200, "Jörg Thomsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>it isn't that easy at all. The default parameter for
>networkretries is, afaik, 10 minutes. So
>most clients try to connect every 10 minutes until thy got a
>timeout. And the timeout seems to be very long :-/.
>I think we loose much power on these gimpsserver fails.
>
>
> Regards
> Jörg
>However, AFAIK, the client continues working while it is trying to
>connect; it's multithreaded.
That wasn't my experience. During the outage, I'd get the message that
it was trying to contact the server. Then it would sit there for 6
minutes, doing nothing, then state that it would try again in an hour,
then pick up where it left off. That 6 minutes per hour was a loss of
10% for 2 days.
So don't know what Nathan means by "multithreading."
And, BTW, why does it take 6 minutes to give up? Wouldn't 1 minute be
sufficient?
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