Re: (ITS#6389) Allow setting syncrepl keepalive

[hyc@symas.com]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> hyc@symas.com wrote:
>> This is low priority. Few platforms provide support for
>> process/socket-specific keepalive settings. Usually you just set it
>> system-wide in the kernel. (Note that a single setting is insufficient, there
>> are 3 parameters that need to be set in concert.)
> 
> I suggest moving this info into the slap_bindconf structure, to allow 
> its exploitation anywhere connections need to be set up, and defining a 
> syntax like keepalive="[<idle>]:[<probe>]:[<intervals>]".  An empty 
> value would mean use the default.

Sounds OK.

Ultimately we should consider moving syncrepl into its own config entry.
Perhaps for 2.5. Not sure if that affects slap_bindconf or not; that still
seems to be useful in its current form.

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