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Discussion thread: part 1: here, part 2: here

JIRA: 

Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

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retry.backoff.max.ms would default to 1000 ms, and the starting backoff will be derived from retry.backoff.ms (which defaults to 100 ms). If retry.backoff.ms is set to be greater than retry.backoff.max.ms, then retry.backoff.max.ms will be used as the backoff. Also, if retry.backoff.ms is set to be greater than retry.backoff.max.ms, then we will log a warning.  The formula to calculate the backoff is as follows:

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