On Sep 2, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Andrew Hanushevsky <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes, that what we do for the BaBar farm at SLAC. It run's VM's and the way they stop a stop is by issuing a kell -9 on the VM. The hypervisor doesn't cleanup the connection in that case. The timeout then closes idle connections. The suggested value is a bit too large. I think we use something like a day as most jobs don't sit on an idle connection for that long. That said, I think Brian just doesn't want to deal with another config change. > :) Well, it's easy to do at Nebraska - I just sit in the sysadmin's office and don't leave until the change is committed. It's the other 40-ish sites I worry about... Brian ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1