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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Nicolas Cannasse <ncannasse@motion-twin.com>
Cc: davids@webmaster.com, swivel@shells.gnugeneration.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: poll() blocked / packets not received ?
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:12:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081021051252.GS24654@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48FCBEBE.700@motion-twin.com>
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 07:24:14PM +0200, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> For (1) I can't add the timeout since I have no way to differentiate
> between a lost connection and a request that takes time to execute.
Not only you can, but you *must*. Any service assuming infinite timeout
is deemed to fail. If you know that one request can take as long as one
minute for instance, then use a 2 minutes timeout. The day all requests
will be automatically cleaned up because of a failed firewall between
client and server, you'll be happy not to have to come there and restart
the service to flush them.
There's a huge difference between using a very large timeout and none at
all.
Willy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 8:25 Nicolas Cannasse
2008-10-20 10:15 ` swivel
2008-10-20 10:46 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2008-10-20 11:39 ` swivel
2008-10-20 12:13 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2008-10-20 12:39 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2008-10-20 15:53 ` David Schwartz
2008-10-20 17:24 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2008-10-20 23:21 ` David Schwartz
2008-10-21 5:12 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
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