Demian Brecht added the comment: > in GNU/Linux "system timeout has been reached" -- means that system timeout > will *never* reached.
That's quite likely because the system limits may be very large. For example, on my OSX box: --- ~ ยป sysctl net.inet.tcp.keepinit net.inet.tcp.keepinit: 75000 According to Apple developer docs, this is in seconds. Meaning for your example to run all 100 iterations, you'd be looking at an inordinate amount of time to finish a loop that timed out at each connection attempt and deferred to system defaults for the timeout value. Not exactly "never", but far from a reasonable time frame. Of course, this can be tuned to a more reasonable limit. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14134> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com