what is the significance of 'retry' and 'every' config parameters in Dancer2::Plugin::Redis

Question

I am using Dancer2::Plugin::Redis plugin to handle the Redis connections.
In order to provide the required configuration parameters, the documentation gives the following sample.

plugins:
  Redis:
    # if you use TCP/IP:
    server: "localhost:6379"
    # if you use UNIX/Linux sockets:
    sock: "/path/to/sock"
    # (optional) Redis password used with auth:
    password: "Very secure password 123!"
    # (optional) Reconnect up to 60 seconds (reconnect) every 5000 milliseconds (every):
    reconnect: 60
    every: 5000
    # (optional) Redis connection name (NOT the Redis database ID):
    name: "my_connection_name"
    # (optional) Function called on Redis connect:
    on_connect: "MyDancer2App::redis_on_connect"
    # (optional) Use serialization for storing values other than simple scalars with Redis:

How does the reconnect and every parameters work together?
Is it like connection will be alive for 60 seconds and it refreshes every 5 sec? If so, it does not make any sense.

Answer 1

From https://metacpan.org/pod/Redis#reconnect,-every

The reconnect option enables auto-reconnection mode. If we cannot connect to the Redis server, or if a network write fails, we enter retry mode. We will try a new connection every every microseconds (1 ms by default), up-to reconnect seconds.

Be aware that read errors will always thrown an exception, and will not trigger a retry until the new command is sent.

If we cannot re-establish a connection after reconnect seconds, an exception will be thrown.