[SSSD] [PATCH] Exit offline mode only if server is available.

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Sun Jul 6 16:42:29 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 12:34 +0200, Michal Židek wrote:
> Hi Sumit,
> 
> actually your suggestion was one of my first ideas, but
> It looked like strange behaviour to me if the first
> getent (or any request for data not present int the
> cache) after offline_timeout period returned nothing
> even if the server was already available and the second
> (1 or 2 seconds after the first) returned proper data. I
> thought this may be considered a bug for some people (even
> if it is not a major regression :) ). The patch I sent
> was then an improvement over this initial idea (from my POV).
> 
> I understand your suggestion and concern, but I would
> prefer to stick with the approach in the patch I sent.

Can we at least use a backoff scheme where we increase timeout periods
every time we try and find ourselves offline ?

Try 1 minute, then 2, then 4, then 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 ...

Simo.

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