On Thu, 3 May 2007, Maarten Litmaath, CERN wrote:
> Note that it is OK to retry a few hours for an output sandbox:
> the WMS could be temporarily unreachable e.g. b/c of maintenance
> of some network component.
>
> > If InputSandbox can't be stageout on first and maybe second try, then
> > the job would be just aborted, since it has not yet started to make any
> > computations, so it won't be much pity to abort such job.
>
> Correct. Please open a bug in Savannah.
On second thought I am not so sure the current behavior is wrong:
also for the input sandbox it gives up after about 5 hours.
The idea is that a job should not give up too quickly,
once it managed to get to the head of the queue!
The exact numbers to be used may be debated.
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