----- Original Message ----- > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Smith, Mitchell < > mitchell.smith@xxxxxxx > wrote: > > > connectiontimeout > > I would expect the timeout value for the particular worker or the > ProxyTimeout to be increased and not the connectiontimeout. The > connectiontimeout tells apache how long to wait for the connection > to the backed to be established (helps if you have overloaded > backend that can't respond immediately) wheres the timeout sets the > time for which apache waits for the response from the backend to > finish before closing the connection (helps with large files > transfers or slow network or slow backend). > > You are right that increasing the connectiontimeout value will have > impact on the loadbalancing (if you are using one) since it will > take apache 10 minutes (in your case) to realise that a particular > backend is down. In the mean time new connections will be still sent > to the crashed host so you don't want to do that so I would keep > that value as low as possible. They all default to timeout: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#timeout i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.galic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://brainsware.org/ GPG: 6880 4155 74BD FD7C B515 2EA5 4B1D 9E08 A097 C9AE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx