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Exponential backoff isn't actually exponential at all #20

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reillysiemens opened this issue Jan 17, 2018 · 0 comments
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Exponential backoff isn't actually exponential at all #20

reillysiemens opened this issue Jan 17, 2018 · 0 comments
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The exponential backoff is computed by

backoff = 0.5
# Do some things...
time.sleep((backoff ** 2) / 4)

and backoff is never changed! Therefore, on each retry we just sleep for 0.0625s, which is not great if we're experiencing connection issues...
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