Keep in mind that this is number of retries per download operation.
We'd retry 3 times to get a manifest, just as we'd retry three times to
get ~1mb of file data.  Retrying 20-30 times for files would mean that
you could end up waiting up to 15 minutes for a chunk, in the worst
case.  That hardly seems acceptable to me.

-j

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:21:54PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > [snip]
> > They are the same variable, it's just that in filelist MAX_TIMEOUT_COUNT
> > is imported explicitly, whereas all of misc is imported in image.  At
> > least right now, the timeouts are one and the same.  Was there a case
> > you're envisioning where we'd want to set these separately?
> >
> > -j
> >   
> 
> I'm not sure if there's a good use case or not for it. My thinking was 
> roughly that manifests are (usually) small compared to the files that 
> are downloaded from the depot. I might want to set the manifest timeout 
> to 1, since if getting manifests times out (more than once), it suggests 
> that getting larger files is going to be very painful. So I might to set 
> manifests to 1, while setting the file timeout to 20 or 30 basically 
> saying if I am going to try getting the larger files, continue trying 
> until you succeed. I'm not sure if this really makes sense, or is 
> realistic, but it tickled the back of my brain, so I wanted to at least 
> throw it out there and see what people thought.
> 
> Brock
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