Hi,

> I guess it is not the server who should answer, but the client, isn't
> it? I mean, server "asks" the client to check if it is alive.

Yes! Thanks Cantu!

=D


My worry is the client connection being droped once [IF] client can't
respond to tcp keep alive probes since it is busy on some time consuming
task (eg. a 30 minutes sql task while tcp_keepalive_time = 15 minutes only)

So, [as for now] I understand one must keep tcp_keepalive_time bigger than
the time taken for its most time consuming sql.


Regards,
Anderson Farias