Jetty IdleTimeout

Question

I am migrating from jetty7.6 to jetty-9.2. I am seeing that default value of idletimeout for jetty connections is reduced 10 times.

In jetty-7.6

<Set name="maxIdleTime">300000</Set>

In jetty-9.2:

<Set name="idleTimeout"><Property name="http.timeout" default="30000"/></Set>

Why So ?

And because of this I am continuously getting below exception :

WARN:oejs.HttpChannel:qtp607635164-14195: Commit failed
java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Idle timeout expired: 30000/30000 ms
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.IdleTimeout.checkIdleTimeout(IdleTimeout.java:156)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.IdleTimeout$1.run(IdleTimeout.java:50)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)..........

Thanks, Anuj

Solution

put this in your ${jetty.base}/start.ini

jetty.http.idleTimeout=300000

that will restore your previous expectations.

It was changed from a default of 5 minutes to 30 seconds as a timeout simply because that's a better choice for the majority of websites.

Comments

[Anuj Khandelwal]

I saw in jetty-http.xml : Set name="idleTimeout"><Property name="http.timeout" default="30000"/></Set> But when i tried to set java property "http.timeout" to 300000. It still shows me the same error with "30000(old value)". Why it is not set to the new value (why can't this be changed from java property) ?

[Joakim Erdfelt]

That is not a java System.setProperty, its a jetty-start / jetty-xml startup property. use start.jar --list-config capture the output, then edit your question to include this output.

[Golly]

FYI, this property is now jetty.http.timeout

[Jorge Yanes Diez]

@Golly I believe you mean jetty.http.idleTimeout since v9.3