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Re:Don't trust default timeouts by jefftk on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:59PM (#24320267)
> recommended setting the timeout to around the P99 time that operations take. I think that's a reasonable starting point, even I might move it towards P99.9.

Why would you intentionally drop 1% or even 0.1% of requests?

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Re:Don't trust default timeouts by afiori on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:13AM (#24322086)
depending on the distribution of processing times[1] dropping slow request and retrying can improve latency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_distribution

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