Re: Patch for 1.94 to avoid starvation when looping for lock

[Brian Behlendorf <brian @ hyperreal . com>]

I'm all for exponential backoff.

I'm also all for a system which, at the end of ten minutes or however long
is decided "enough!", the message which was supposed to be acted upon is
placed in a directory somewhere, and a cron job comes through and
processes those delayed requests every hour or two or something.  Or not,
if the load average is too high.  

But I suppose that's 2.0.

	Brian