On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 13:13 -0700, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote: > I'm still struggling to understand the infrequent occurrence of service > calls in our system that take well past the "socket timeout" value that > we set for the transaction. I know that the "socket timeout" is PER > PACKET, not PER TRANSACTION. >
To be exact it is the maximum _interval_ between two consecutive packets. This has nothing to do with the size or number of packets. > One thing I'm wondering is whether the sizes of packets could be > variable. For instance, will I end up with smaller packets when the > server is heavily loaded, as opposed to larger packet sizes under normal > load? > It is perfectly normal that under heavy load intervals between packets increase. If, however, those intervals remain below the timeout value the connection will not expire despite transactions taking much longer. Hope this helps Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
