Retry and eventually fail after timeouts, instead of ignoring. #94
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Before, we simply ignored timeouts, allowing the sample size to fall by one each time. In the case that all samples timed out, this caused a hard crash in code that assumed there would be at least one measurement. Now, we retry timeouts 3 times and abort after the final attempt.
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Fixes #86
Before, we simply ignored timeouts, allowing the sample size to fall by one each time. In the case that all samples timed out, this caused a hard crash in code that assumed there would be at least one measurement.
Now, we retry timeouts 3 times and abort after the final attempt.
This is what will now happen if your server is down: