There is nothing in IBO's standard settings that can be done to directly
influence this.
I think you need to raise this issue in the respective forum for InterBase
or Firebird.

Jason Wharton
www.ibobjects.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Ison [mailto:anthony@...]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:06 AM
> To: ibobjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBO] Slow response to missing server
>
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am doing some testing of lost connections. I use the
> TIB_Connection.VerifyConnection method to test whether the
> connection is
> still available. I then pull out the network cable. The
> VeryConnection
> call is very responsive until the cable is pulled. The next request
> takes over 10 seconds to return.
>
> Is there any way to reduce the timeout on VerifyConnection? It looks
> like it is the call to isc_database_info. Would doing this
> cause other
> side effects? I need my software to be quick to respond to a lost
> server connection.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Anthony
>
> "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was
> ever achieved."
>