On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 11:19 -0700, Mark Crispin wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Instead of fighting clients with this, I solved it by having server send > > * OK Hang in there.. > > about every 15 seconds during long running commands. Clients seem to be > > happy with it and not disconnect. > > Unfortunately, the mobile device guys and gals then get unhappy with you > for chewing up their battery. It's not as bad as making them transmit, > but it still causes a wakeup. They aren't placated when you tell them > that it's to work around stupid clients. They get unhappy even with an > untagged OK every two minutes during IDLE to quell a NAT timeout.
I think that's a different issue. They're unhappy when an idling device gets woken up (constantly). The "Hang in there" messages are sent only when client has requested some command that takes >15 seconds. Most of the users/clients never see those messages at all.
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