Michael A. Peters wrote:
Robert Cummings wrote:
Rene Veerman wrote:
eh thats "randomize the timing of the retry attempt"..


On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Rene Veerman <rene7...@gmail.com> wrote:

and after the sleep(rand(1,3)) it might need a short loop like this;
$rnd = rand(1,99999); $a=0;
for ($i=0; $i<$rnd; $i++) { $a++ }

to further randomize the retry attempt..
While this decreases the probability of a collision you're just setting up another race. They teach about this stuff in computer science... right around first year... or at least they once upon a time did.

Cheers,
Rob.

Einstein I believe said something along the lines of

"A smart person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it in the first place"

Might not have been Einstein, but anyway ...

Do you mean the following quote?

    The difference between a smart person and a wise person is that
    a smart person knows what to say and a wise person knows whether
    or not to say it.

Cheers,
Rob.
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