At 07:20 AM 4/11/2005, Bill Stoddard wrote:
>Rich Bowen wrote:
>>While the 2.2 config files are somewhat in flux, I thought I'd bring up
>>the topic of KeepAliveTimeout. The default config files have this set to
>>15 seconds. As far as I remember, it is set that way due to some
>>possibly-scientific survey that said that "average" web users click ever
>>15 seconds. Even assuming that that was true at some point, it seems to
>>me that the main reason for keepalive is for the files (images, css)
>>associated with a single page, not for retaining a connection between
>>pages.

++1 on your interpretation, Rich.  We aren't waiting on the same user
to click around (and waste a socket) - we are trying to stream all
the info from a single hit that we can on the fewest pipes.

>> In that case, I would think that 2, or perhaps 3 seconds, would
>>be more than sufficient.
>>Thoughts?
>>--Rich
>
>Joshua picked the important nits.. I am generally +1 on setting default KA 
>timeout from 15 to 5.

+1 for 5 seconds, here.  Should handily deal with even slower page
loads and composition.

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