On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Chandranshu . <chandranshu at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We didn't have any particular reason to choose this timeout. We had set it > to larger values initially and then decreased it in steps. Timeouts started > to happend at a limit of 1.5s. So, we doubled it to 3s. Ever since then, we > have not encountered timeouts though the system did become slow at times. > Are there heuristics available to estimate a good timeout settings? It is just an educated guess on how much timeout shoule be. It is not safe to keep it as low as 3 secs. We have seen even keeping it as 20 secs getting timed out when there are very heavy operations (when stress testing with iozone/dbench) Krishna
