Murder question

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> If I understand correctly, some strangeness may happen between the time
> the connection is lost and reestablished, like user creating folders but
> not seeing them right away.  Considering that, would'nt it be a good
> idea to have that value very low (like 1) to minimize the loss of
> service ?

Only if you want your mupdate process spinning trying to reconnect.  In
all likelihood, if the mupdate server crashes, then no one is doing any
database updates *and* it won't be up again immediately.

-Rob

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