[DISPATCH-11] Remove all the Dispatch tunables; we have no idea if they're important

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.1
• Fix Version/s: Backlog
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Justin Ross
• Created: 30/Jan/14 18:27
• Updated: 02/Feb/21 10:07

Description

A car has a simple interface: steering, gear selection, lights,
wipers. Those things are important to drivers.

A car also has another interface, for car mechanics: valve timing,
fuel-air mix, and more stuff I'm pretending I know about.

Dispatch's config is currently confronting drivers with things only
car mechanics should have to care about: "worker-threads",
"hello-interval", "hello-max-age", "ra-interval",
"remote-ls-max-age", "mobile-addr-max-age".

That's the wrong bias. It's much to be preferred that we, the
people developing the software, discover ways to provide good
defaults that don't require tunables. Then, only when we face a
particular need and no way to handle it seamlessly, should we
consider exposing config for it.

Build it for drivers, not car mechanics.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/150355/programmatically-find-the-number-of-cores-on-a-machine

Issue Links

• is cloned by: DISPATCH-695 Remove all the Dispatch tunables; we have no idea if they're important