Increasing timeout consequences ? No one to answer ?

kaps · Post by **kaps** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:33 pm

We ran into the following problem recently.

ds_ipcput() - timeout waiting for mutex

we had to increase the timeout parameter and the job ran fine.

Job design...Source and Targets are files. 5 transformers and each transformer has 4 hashed file lookups. Inter process is enabled.

I believe timeout happens because of resource contention. when we run more than one job at the sametime and the CPU is busy one job waits for the resources to be freed and for which we specify the wait time as timeout.

Questions:
1) If my understanding is correct, if we set some large value in timeout then the jobs would not fail. Am I correct ?
2) Seting the timeout to high number like 300 secs is going to cause any performance issues ?

ajrandrup · Post by **ajrandrup** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:20 am

This is an interesting question.
Would anyone have an idea?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:02 pm

Which timeout are you setting, and how are you setting it?