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Re:Visually Compare Retry Algorithms by withinboredom on Sunday January 05, 2025 @05:06AM (#42600810)
This is awesome. It's nice to have a tool to show people why they shouldn't have non-capped exponential retries.

It would be even nicer if adding configurations updated the URL so you could actually share the configuration with others. Oh, and a log(time) axis for better visualizations of non-linear retries.

For now, just set a 5x exponential retry of 100ms...

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Re:Visually Compare Retry Algorithms by somehelpful on Sunday January 05, 2025 @10:08AM (#42602226)
It doesn’t seem so bad if you set the factor to something more reasonable like 2?
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Re:Visually Compare Retry Algorithms by withinboredom on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:29PM (#42604306)
Why would you retry after 2ms? In most cases, the odds are extremely likely you’d have the exact same outcome; but it depends on your application.
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Re:Visually Compare Retry Algorithms by almostdeadguy on Sunday January 05, 2025 @09:49PM (#42607123)
2 is the factor, not the initial delay.
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