[rabbitmq-discuss] Why default connection heartbeat = 0?

[stone]

Hi Emile

One more question, what could possibly be impacted if the default heartbeat
value is set to 2, 3 or 5 etc. ?

BRs
/stone

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Emile Joubert <emile at rabbitmq.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 28/03/12 12:37, stone wrote:
> > Why Erlang (perhaps other languages too?) client default connection
> > heartbeat value is set to 0 ?
> > Is there any special reason behind this or?
> > Because people often forget to give a value to this field,
> > this might lead to connection leaks due to some unexpected crashes or
> > network downtime.
>
> The absence of AMQP heartbeats should not lead to connection leaks in
> the broker or any well-written client.
>
> The default broker behaviour is not to request heartbeats, but clients
> may enable them if the network is known to be unreliable.
>
> -Emile
>
>
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