[mirror-admin] enabling keep-alives

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> We did have this discussion a year ago, and I think one also needs to
> show the negative sides of keepalives. It isn't black or white
> otherwise it wouldn't be an option.

sure.  Your suggestion of a 2-second keepalive as an option seems a
good one - it keeps the crawler happy, and keeps yum happy, without
keeping slots active-but-idle for very long.  That made it into the
wiki as a recommendation.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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