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Re: timeout question

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: timeout question
From: "Leon Keijser" <l.keijser@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:26:01 +0200
On 4/13/06, Graeme Fowler <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> First up, make sure you're using persistence (which you probably already
> are).


Not yet, no. Since it didn't matter (according to the sysadmin) on which
server the clients would connect to after a disconnect. I can turn it on.
Does it matter which persistence value i add for it?

Secondly, is this the sort of application which ends up having a lot of
> idle time with no traffic either way? I'm hazarding a guess here that
> (because you say it's telnet based) that unless there's a clock or
> something similar on the terminal the users see, then they could well
> simply not transmit any traffic whatsoever (and the realserver likewise)
> and therefore some protocol timer is being hit and the session ended at
> the director.


Exactly. Almost the entire time the client is idle with no traffic going
either way. The system is for looking up patient data etc, and is usually
idle when there's nobody at the counter.

You can tweak these settings, but getting a handle on what the clients
> do (or don't) would be useful first.
>
> Graeme


Thanks,

Léon

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