Fault tolerance and cross client compatibility

[Mathias Herberts]

On 4/13/05, Greg Whalin <gwhalin at meetup.com> wrote:

> That I don't see changing to match the perl client.  If my entire
> cluster is down, might as well fail out earlier to grab data from my
> datastore.  Perhaps I could make the # of tries user set and default to
> # of buckets?

I agree with you, I think it is the Perl client that should be
changed, this value of 20 is purely arbitrary and could be too low if
high weights are used.

The idea of having a default value of # of buckets and a setter sounds fine.

Mathias.