Setting max_retries to retry posts of output files to galaxy is extremely useful, since galaxy is sometimes restarting or too busy to receive the post. The retries also occur when the file does not exist on pulsar and this is not useful, because if the file does not exist upon the completion of a job it will not exist X retries later. Most often the output files are missing because a job has failed. Depending on the settings and the number of expected outputs, a user might have to wait over an hour to find out that their job has failed. Nonexistence of expected output files could be handled by a separate check, prior to the retry loop, and retries skipped in this case.