Documentation doesn't match code

[sridhar basam]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:18:58PM -0500, sridhar basam wrote:
>
> > The documentation for the mail proxy module state the "so_keepalive"
> > variable can be used to toggle keepalive functionality to the backend
> > server.
>
> Wow.  Where did you find one?  May be you mean wiki?
>
>
That is right, it was on the english wiki. I have corrected it on the wiki,
if you want to give it a look.


> > The actual code though uses this configuration variable to drive
> keepalive
> > functionality on the client side connection though. Below is a short
> patch
> > which changes the keepalive functionality to the backend server.
>
> It is believed that it works as expected - sets SO_KEEPALIVE on
> client socket once we are about to open backend connection (which
> is usually resource consuming, as backends are used to follow
> process per connection model).  This allows to free backend
> connections early as long as clients silently disappear.
>
> You may want to fix wiki instead (it seems to be down right now
> though).
>
>
Yeah, guess doing it on either end is fine, since the backend is going to
get torn down if the client is detected as down.

 sridhar


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Sridhar
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