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Chris_Lira_5487
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Oct 16, 2008

idle timeout

In our BIGIP-LTM, the idle timeout is set to 300 seconds. When we run a transaction which takes about 10 minutes, we see a second transaction enter our web/app server after about 5 minutes (so we end...
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Chris_Lira_5487
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Oct 17, 2008
Yes, the server does actually take 10 minutes or more to start sending responses (long running search query). We have considered extending the TCP idle timeout to a higher value. But we were also exploring using shorter OS level tcp_keepalive(s). We are using AIX. Would that be a better approach?