[Libreoffice] Check for updates uses keep-alive / impacts the server (opengrok, tinderbox..)

[Jonathan Aquilina]

On 1/17/12 12:30 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Pedro, *,
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Pedro<pedlino at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I hope you guys manage to fix this for RC1. Currently only the Beta version
>> has this feature. Considering that only a small proportion of users are
>> brave enough to try Betas and that Updates are only checked manually,
> my beta3 defaults to having the weekly auto-check enabled.
>
>> it is
>> worrying that this can have an impact on the server...
> Yes, because it runs out of open connections, not because it causes
> high load. It causes the server to roll thumbs..
So the problem here is that the connections dont get closed? If that is 
the case would'nt that be an easy fix in the sense that after a certain 
amount of time that the connection is idle the connection gets closed? 
Is it possible to do something like that with KeepAlive?

SNIP