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

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

From: Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek_at_redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:50:12 +0100

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:10:33PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> 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...
>

I think this would be a worthy addition. People have worked around not
having the fixed timeout in different creative ways in the past (myself
included).
Received on 2012-01-03