Hi Paul, On Sunday 02 December 2012, Paul Dejean wrote: > I'm hoping to submit some patches relating to timeouts, because > I've heard that they could use some work to make them more > manageable. For instance in the documentation it shows a bunch of > timeouts that can only be configured through the core timeout > directive ( > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#timeout). > > Here are some of my goals: > 1. Move fallback timeouts represented as magic numbers to compile > time flags with defaults. > 2. Graph the different timeouts, so it's possible to visually see > what timeouts fall back to what. Hopefully add this graph to the > documentation. > 3. Where possible. Give modules such as mod_cgi or > mod_proxy_fcgi their own timeout values, rather than those > timeouts only being configurable through more general timeouts. > 4. Tweak logging of timeouts, so it's more clear what timed out. > Maybe as a start mention the length of the timeout in the log > entry of the timeout. > > I'm hoping these goals align with these goals of the httpd > development community, and that I'm able to submit useful patches. > It's an honor to meet you folks.
such contributions would be wellcome. AFAIR, a separate cgi timeout is a longstanding feature request. I am not sure that 4. is possible in all cases, but even if we only improve logging for some cases, that would be a win. Cheers, Stefan
