[Tilesathome] Weird failure of T at H client

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:52:21AM +0000, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
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>> I just looked at my T at H client and found:
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>> I've restarted it (by typing ./tilesgen.pl loop), and it seems fine now.
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>> Any ideas what the cause was? Should I worry?
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> The server was down for about two hours earlier today; this was the
> cause. 

Wouldn't that mean that most T at H clients would have stopped? Looking at
the Munin graphs, there is a 2 hour gap between 1700 and 1900, but after
1900 T at H is quickly back up to full speed.

Maybe we could use exponential backoff in these circumstances, down to,
say, half hourly retries, rather than give up completely after 5 goes.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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