On 9/13/10 12:20 PM, "Paul Krizak" <paul.kri...@amd.com> wrote:
> I can see the advantage to using a persistent class in this case.  It
> allows you to have different timeouts for different events.  If the wget
> fails, the "I failed to wget" class can have no persistence (so the next
> 5-minute run will try again) while the "I was able to wget" class may
> have a persistence of several hours (and maybe a splayclass as well) to
> prevent hammering the target server.

While I see the potential value of "persistent classes" -- I've always done
this in modules, which set classes based upon actions, which have whatever
"locking/retry" mechanism I chose.

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Mike Hoskins : micho...@cisco.com : +1 (415) 506-UNIX (8649)

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        -- Sir Richard Burton

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