[Yum-devel] before 2.3.4

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:54:28PM -0700, Michael Stenner wrote:
> As long as it's well-documented, I really don't think it matters much
> what the default it.  That said, I suspect the right way to
> increase/decrease it is exponentially :) That is, multiply/divide by 2
> or something.  If 30 seconds is providing repeated failures for
> someone, I doubt 45 is going to make it magically work.

You'd be surprised, then. :) We have four different people here who
repeatedly could't get updates from our ftp server with 30, and setting it
to 40 made the problems go away. The extra 5 is for safety. :)

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