#2522 HIGH Update.: PS needs an exponential backoff in retrying gabble connections (was: Hard hang seen in sugar (presence-service?))

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#2522: PS needs an exponential backoff in retrying gabble connections
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  Reporter:  cjb               |       Owner:  morgs   
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  Update.2
 Component:  presence-service  |     Version:          
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Changes (by morgs):

 * cc: smcv (added)


Comment:

 smcv wrote in
 http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-November/007524.html:

 > PS makes an unlimited number of connection attempts, with a short delay
 between each one (we should probably change this to use an exponential
 backoff process so the delays get longer as you're offline for longer, up
 to a maximum of perhaps 10 minutes).

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