Hi

I am evaluating pound for a project and while playing with the TimeOut 
option, I found that it does not seem to work.

No matter what I set it to and no matter whether I set it globally or 
specifically for a BackEnd Server, the used TimeOut always seems to be 
15 seconds.

My Test Setup is

                 /> Apache 1
Client -> Pound -> Apache 2
                 \> Apache 3

On Apache 1 I configure iptables to DROP incoming tcp port 80.

First of all I noticed that pound does not realize that the BackEnd is 
dead until the first request is tried towards this BackEnd. Maybe that's 
by design, but in case it's not I figured I'd mention what I saw.

Then, once the Client puts a request that pound decides to forward to 
Apache 1, it takes 15.00x seconds for the request to complete, no matter 
what or in which place the TimeOut is configured. I tested with 180 and 
10 seconds.

Logs look like this:

(41f47950) connect_nb: poll timed out
(41f47950) backend 10.250.250.198:80 connect: Connection timed out
(41f47950) BackEnd 10.250.250.198:80 dead (killed)
10.250.250.191 10.250.250.235 - - [22/Nov/2011:12:05:54 +0100] "GET / 
HTTP/1.1" 200 66 "" "Links (2.1pre37; Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64; 
80x22)" (- -> 10.250.250.221:80) 15.003 sec

This test was done with version 2.5 and 2.6f and both show the same 
behaviour. Configuration file is:

User            "www-data"
Group           "www-data"
LogLevel        5
Daemon          0
LogFacility     -
Alive           2
Client 30
TimeOut 180
# TimeOut 10
DynScale 1
ListenHTTP
         Address 10.250.250.191
         Port    80
         HeadRemove "^Host:"
         addHeader "host: test.mydomain.de"
     Service
         Session
                 Type IP
                 TTL 6000
         End
         BackEnd
             Address 10.250.250.165
             Port    80
         End
         BackEnd
             Address 10.250.250.198
             Port    80
             TimeOut 180
             # TimeOut 10
         End
         BackEnd
             Address 10.250.250.221
             Port    80
         End
     End
End

Did I do something wrong or is this a bug? If it is a bug: Is there a 
bug tracker for pound that I could post this to?

Regards
Dominik

Try setting the ConnTO option explicitly.

Joe

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On 11/22/2011 03:12 PM, Joe Gooch wrote:[...]

This works for both my testcases (10 and 180).

Thanks
Dominik
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The man page should probably be updated... It says connto defaults to
timeout... Which when I look at the code... isn't true.  They both default to
15.  But if you change the timeout the connto won't inherit it.

I would think to remove ambiguity you'd always specify both explicitly in your
configurations.

Joe

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