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I’ve read a suggestion to use prime numbers for retry timers to reduce the chance of multiple timers synchronizing if they have common factors. I don’t know if that’s a real concern, but it wouldn’t hurt to pick a random prime number instead of some other random number.


IIS picked 29 hours as the smallest prime over 24.

https://serverfault.com/questions/348493/why-does-the-iis-wo...




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