Re: Blocking connection and timeout problem

Assuming you are on a linux box (Not sure if it's stated in your mail,
sorry if I missed that) you could set

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time

to a lower value. That should do the trick.

Hope this helps
Greetings

Dario

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 16:48 +0200, KÖPFERL Robert wrote:
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> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> |Sent: Mittwoch, 03. August 2005 16:38
> |To: KÖPFERL Robert
> |Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> |Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Blocking connection and timeout problem
> |
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> |=?iso-8859-1?Q?K=D6PFERL_Robert?= <robert(dot)koepferl(at)sonorys(dot)at> writes:
> |> Why is that? Why isn't client A's transaction detected as dead ?
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> |It will be eventually, when the TCP connection times out. The standard
> |timeout is generally an hour or two :-(
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> Seems not like so. I waited for two hours and it still existed.
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> But non-the-less. Can this timeout be configured to be less?
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> | regards, tom lane
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