Subject: Re: Need help to understand how timeouts work in C-ARES

Re: Need help to understand how timeouts work in C-ARES

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 16:10:33 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Henrik Størner wrote:

> Running this again, setting the timeout to 10 causes the timeout event to
> trigger after 117 seconds with the default number of tries, and after 29
> seconds if I reduce "tries" to 2.
>
> Thanks for your help, now I understand what is going on. I'll use a smaller
> timeout value so it is a bit more agressive with retrying the request.

I guess we could consider adding a more fixed timeout for the maximum time to
allow a single "operation" to take...

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  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2012-01-03