Why socket retries 45 in hadoop IPC Client?

[Gokulakannan M]

Hi folks,

 

            In Hadoop IPC Client , I found that the maxretries is 45 in case
if SocketTimeoutException is got from server(mostly from datanode or
namenode).      I wonder why a large value 45 is used as max retry time.
Possibly there might be a specific reason behind this(because generally the
retry value will be 3 or something like that) ? <moreover the max retry for
IOexception is only 10>. Clarifications appreciated..

 

 Thanks,

  Gokul