> -----Original Message----- > From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 5:00 AM > To: HttpClient User Discussion > Subject: Re: Is it possible that HttpClient might use more packets > under load than not under load? > > 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.
That's exactly what I'm looking for, thanks.
