At 07:20 AM 4/11/2005, Bill Stoddard wrote: >Rich Bowen wrote: >>While the 2.2 config files are somewhat in flux, I thought I'd bring up >>the topic of KeepAliveTimeout. The default config files have this set to >>15 seconds. As far as I remember, it is set that way due to some >>possibly-scientific survey that said that "average" web users click ever >>15 seconds. Even assuming that that was true at some point, it seems to >>me that the main reason for keepalive is for the files (images, css) >>associated with a single page, not for retaining a connection between >>pages.
++1 on your interpretation, Rich. We aren't waiting on the same user to click around (and waste a socket) - we are trying to stream all the info from a single hit that we can on the fewest pipes. >> In that case, I would think that 2, or perhaps 3 seconds, would >>be more than sufficient. >>Thoughts? >>--Rich > >Joshua picked the important nits.. I am generally +1 on setting default KA >timeout from 15 to 5. +1 for 5 seconds, here. Should handily deal with even slower page loads and composition.
