On Mittwoch, 19. November 2008, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
> it's far better to use loop mode instead of a batch mode, especially
> when interacting with the tah server, for a number of reasons:
> the loop mode:
> a) handles uploading in the background automagically

For which I don't care if I'm running a dedicated upload_loop.

> b) exits if there is a persistent fault (some external tool broken)

That's why I wrote the wrapper script. The client stopped on rare cases of 
errors. But you are right that letting a client restart even if there are 
persistent errors would be a bad thing. Question is how to distinguish 
between rare errors and persistent errors. There are some tiles which cause 
errors here (the libGD error) and that's why I asked in another mail if there 
is a possibility to put a job back manually so that the community do not have 
to wait for the seven hours lasting timeout. And I didn't want to let this 
rare cases stop the loop.

> c) better handles client-server interaction.
> d) offers a chance to do auto-tuning of the maxComplexity stuff.
>
> basically it handles everything better where the knowledge of previous
> client behaviour is needed to decide how to proceed.

...where...


Regards
Andre

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