[Tilesathome] Upload file order?

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Dirk-Lüder Kreie schrieb:
> Tapio Sokura schrieb:
>> Hello,
> 
>> I was looking at the upload.pl code and noticed that when an upload 
>> fails, the next-file-to-upload "counter" is advanced a notch. So when an 
>> upload finally succeeds, the uploaded file probably isn't the oldest zip 
>> in the uploadable directory. Is this intentional?
> 
> It was intentional when we had no means of knowing beforehand wether an
> upload would succeed or fail, and if fail, why it would fail. So in
> order to avoid having one defunct zip stalling the entire upload process
> it skips to the next on failure. With "Jever" this behaviour should
> change, unfortunately no one has taken the time necessary to remedy this.

Basically it's on my TODO list:
* make the upload procedure try each zip as long as the upload fails
  "soft" (i.e. queuecheck negative)
* make upload skip to next zip if upload fails "hard" i.e. error on
  actual upload
* adapt the delay mechanism to encompass current queue fill to predict
  waiting times instead of exponential backoff, or at least don't zip
  back to 0 delay on success, but reduce delay down one or 2 notches.


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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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