Absolutely!! Thanks for the correction Paul. What was I thinking when I was typing (apparently not the issue at hand...I guess ;-)
Ruzi --- Paul Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If no heartbeat packets are received within the > >> Heartbeat check interval the > >> receiver will assume an outage and go "Inactive". > > >How is this possible? Maybe it is an enhancement in > >5.3??? Although it is not explicitly mentioned in > >your info-clip, maybe the Keepalive option is used > >here??? > > >Regards > >Ruzi > > As I said in my previous notes the Distributed > products will issue a > receive with a timeout if heartbeat is active. If > we're heartbeating every > 5 minutes we will issue a receive timeout for 6 > minutes. If the receive > does actually timeout it means we received neither a > heartbeat or a message > in 6 minutes which implies a network failure. > > For those who are interested we actually do this > using a select() call on > all the Unixes and using SO_RCVTIMEO on Windows. > > This is not an enhancement for 5.3 we've done this > for years and years. > > Cheers, > P. > > Paul G Clarke > WebSphere MQ Development > IBM Hursley > > Instructions for managing your mailing list > subscription are provided in > the Listserv General Users Guide available at > http://www.lsoft.com > Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive
