Bug #6577 autoReconnect retry delay time increase should be improved
Submitted: 11 Nov 2004 14:25 Modified: 28 Nov 2005 17:52
Reporter: Oliver Wagner
Status: Closed
Category:Connector/J Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:3.0.15 OS:Java
Assigned to: Mark Matthews Target Version:
Triage: D5 (Feature request)

[11 Nov 2004 14:25] Oliver Wagner 
Description:
When autoReconnect is set to true, the driver uses an increasing delay between connection
attempts. The time starts out at initialTimeout and doubles for every failed connect
attempt. However, this causes the delay time to quickly grow very large (2s, 4s, 8s, 16s,
32s, 64s, 128s, 256s, 512s...), possibly uncessarily extending the downtime.

How to repeat:
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Suggested fix:
Two possible solutions to improve the behavior:

-- provide a "cap" setting on the timeout (i.e. 30s)
-- provide a mode which doesn't increase the timeout at all, or at least not exponentially
[28 Nov 2005 17:52] Mark Matthews 
We've removed the increase of timeouts completely for 3.1.12 and 5.0.0. Thanks for the bug
report.