Miscellaneous questions

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <87abkxuyxn.fsf at des.linpro.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=
 writes:

>> > 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.
>
>No, we were talking about how long an idle backend connection is kept
>open (or at least I was).

Yes I know :-)

And we don't do anything to close those before the backend closes on
us, we have no reason to, the longer we keep it, the more connection
setups we avoid.

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