On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerr...@usit.uio.no> wrote: > I tested this yesterday and I could not get any reaction from the wal > receiver even after using minimal values compared to the default values . > > The default values in linux for tcp_keepalive_time, tcp_keepalive_intvl > and tcp_keepalive_probes are 7200, 75 and 9. I reduced these values to > 60, 3, 3 and nothing happened, it continuous with status ESTABLISHED > after 60+3*3 seconds. > > I did not restart the network after I changed these values on the fly > via /proc. I wonder if this is the reason the connection didn't die > neither with the new keppalive values after the connection was broken. I > will check this later today.
Walreceiver uses libpq to communicate with the master. But keepalive is not enabled in libpq currently. That is libpq code doesn't call something like setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE). So even if you change the kernel options for keepalive, it has no effect on walreceiver. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers