[omniORB] Reduce timeout delay?

[David Morgenlender]

Sai-Lai,

>> Using omniORB 2.5, if my CORBA client attempts to invoke the CORBA
>> server, when it is not available, there's a long delay before an
>> exception is returned.  Is there anyway to reduce this delay?
>
>The delay is the default tcp connect timeout of your platform. I suppose
>you are talking about the case when the server is actually switched off.=
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>this case the timeout could run into tens of seconds depending on how =
many
>retries your tcp stack has been configured to do.
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>If you prefer, you can change the connect code (tcpSocketMTfactory.cc) =
in
>the ORB to do a timeout.  e.g. This code fragment is in use in
>2.6.0. Solaris has a habit of blocking for minutes by default when the
>remote machine is switched off.

Yes, I was talking about that timeout case.  Thanks for the patch.

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Dave Morgenlender
e-mail: dmorgen@alum.mit.edu
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