Re: [9fans] just in case anyone has written this

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> > if one node is just slow enough in responding that it
> > falls outside the timeout, you could get an annoying situation
> > where that node is out-of-step forever after.
>

i fought some socket mgmt software for a few years that did
timeouts and rollup like this.  it seemed to me that between timeouts and
retransmission one could not dig oneself out of the hole without
a proper protocol.  and doing it on top of tcp was impossible.

> worse yet, nodes may be sending more than one line at a time,
> circumventing the aggregator. if they do it fast enough it becomes a
> real mess and there's no amount of lookback one can do to ensure this
> isn't happening :)

but even if it logs the message once, your disk full message will appear
in n*2 seconds.

do we need to take up a collection to get you some disks?

- erik