Miscellaneous questions

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Mar 17 16:35:59 CET 2008


In message <86db848d0803170830t30170616re9c49d681f13fdf3 at mail.gmail.com>, "Mich
ael S. Fischer" writes:
>On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des at linpro.no> wro=
>te:
>> "Michael S. Fischer" <michael at dynamine.net> writes:
>>
>> > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des at linpro.no> writes:
>>  > > I think the default timeout on backends connection may be a little
>>  > > short, though.
>>  > I assume this is the thread_pool_timeout parameter?
>>
>>  No, that's how long an idle worker thread is kept alive.  I don't think
>>  the backend timeout is configurable, I think it's hardocded to five
>>  seconds.
>
>What does the timeout pertain to?  Connect time?  Response time?

Actually, I don't think we have any non-default timeout on the
backends now: connect timeout is whatever the kernel uses and
we don't set any socketopts like SO_RCVTIMEO on the tcp connection.

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