Robert Cummings wrote:
Rene Veerman wrote:
eh thats "randomize the timing of the retry attempt"..
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Rene Veerman <rene7705@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
and after the sleep(rand(1,3)) it might need a short loop like this;
$rnd = rand(1,99999); $a=0;
for ($i=0; $i<$rnd; $i++) { $a++ }
to further randomize the retry attempt..
While this decreases the probability of a collision you're just setting
up another race. They teach about this stuff in computer science...
right around first year... or at least they once upon a time did.
Cheers,
Rob.
Einstein I believe said something along the lines of
"A smart person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it in the first place"
Might not have been Einstein, but anyway ...
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