Broadening the scope of the negative connection cache

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Marc VanHeyningen wrote:
> Gerald (Jerry) Carter sed:
>>> The obvious solution would be to migrate the negative 
>>> connection cache to be stored in a different way, probably
>>> as a TDB file.  This would allow every child process to share
>>> the failure information.
>> I believe the easiest way to achieve this is simply to
>> use the gencache API and set a 60 second TTL on entries.
> 
> Sounds good, but a 60 second TTL seems too short to me.  Attempting 
> to find a host and having it fail to respond can take a significant 
> fraction of 60 seconds in some (admittedly unusual) cases.
> 
> Probably the best system is an adaptive one, which increases the 
> TTL of the negative entry the longer the target remains inaccessible,
> but that's more complexity than this situation really warrants.

Anything to reduce timeouts is fine.  Let's just make one
change at a time.  Moving to gencache here is the first step.



jerry

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