Re: [Gaim-devel] Autoreconnect plugin (cvs)

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Luke Schierer spake unto us the following wisdom:
> the autorecon plugin exponentially grows in delay time. it starts at an=
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> immediate attempt, then 17 seconds delay, doubling each time, to a max of=
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> just over once per half hour or so. the reason for this is that if your=
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> connection were to be non-existant for an extended period of time, or wor=
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> if it were only _nearly_ non-existant, as has often happened to me on bot=
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> dialup and with verizon dsl, you can max out your login attempts easily i=
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> the growning delay were not present.=20

Exponential backoff is, in general, a glorious thing.  :-)

Ethan

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