Re: timeout exponentially backoff ?

then, timeout WILL exponentially backoff in the future release of net-snmp?
is it better if exponentially backoff ?
why the comments in snmp_api.h ?

struct snmp_session {
    /*
     * Protocol-version independent fields
     */
    /** snmp version */
    long            version;
    /** Number of retries before timeout. */
    int             retries;
    /** Number of uS until first timeout, then exponential backoff */
    long            timeout;        
 
thanks.

>
>On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:02 +0800, =?gb2312?B?wO4glUY=?= wrote:
> > [Does] timeout really exponentially backoff ?
>
>No.
>
>Looking at the code:
>
>static int
>snmp_resend_request(...)
>{
>     :
>
>     rp->retries++;
>     result = transport->f_send(...);
>
>     :
>
>     gettimeofday(&now, (struct timezone *) 0);
>     tv = now;
>     tv.tv_usec += rp->timeout;     <=====
>     rp->expire = tv;
>}
>
>
>The same timeout value is added each time.
>No back-off algorithm is applied.
>
>Dave
>




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