[Tilesathome] Client Stability

[Milenko]

Hey all,

    I've run across two issues that seem to keep recurring, both of which will cause the client to die and be manually restarted.  First one is the inkscape preferences file, which seems to get b0rked any time inkscape crashes.  Since the fix is to delete the /home/user/.inkscape directory and restart the client, couldn't the client simply do this at the start of every loop?  That way inkscape will generate a new preferences file every loop and should keep this from happening.  Unless this file is meaningful in some other way?

    The second issue happened yesterday, and has happened before.  If the API goes down for longer than 10 - 15 minutes, almost all of the clients die due to failing more than 5 times to fetch data.  Could this loop be called twice, with a wait of like 30 minutes or so inbetween?  So try 5 times, wait 30 mins, then try 5 more times, then die.  This would give the API more time to get back online and keep more clients online without having to be restarted manually.

-Jeremy
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