RE: JW6: return 102 if long time

OK, makes sense to me.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Babich, Alan [mailto:ABabich@filenet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 5:49 PM
> To: 'Jim Whitehead'
> Subject: RE: JW6: return 102 if long time
>
>
> In my experience, systems don't even try to guess
> at how long a query will take to execute. Estimating
> a single user on a fast network is not feasible,
> let alone multiple users, varying server load,
> and varying network capacity and traffic.
>
> Of course it would be nice to predict end-to-end query
> execution time, but I don't think it is
> feasible. To time out after N seconds
> and tell the client something he already knows
> (N seconds have gone by) is unnecessary complexity
> to REQUIRE in my opinion.
>
> Alan Babich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Whitehead [mailto:ejw@ics.uci.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 5:02 PM
> To: 'DASL'
> Subject: RE: JW6: return 102 if long time
>
>
>
>
> > I don't want to require that. I don't see that the benefit
> > is enough to require that things be more complicated.
>
> I still think this would be nice to have, but it may be that
> search engines
> typically don't know how long a search will take ahead of time.
> Is this the
> case?  Or are most searches typically quite fast, a la AltaVista?  I'm not
> aware of, e.g., typical DM performance for searches.
>
> - Jim
>