[horde] Best timing settings for Horde ActiveSync

[Patrick De Zordo]

> >> I've tried to debug a bit the things..
> >> Please download this file:
> >>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/tsdjfeaumhiy79p/BUG%20OL%20slow%20resp
> onse%
> >> 20on%20new%20message.zip?dl=0
> >>
> >> This is the timeline:
> >> - I have connected 1 Android and 1 OL2013 client via ActiveSync to
> >> our server (we are using Horde GIT version from some weeks ago).
> >> - The problem is happening just with the OL2013 client
> >>
> >> In "9A9F4000B00444C8BC2C1E40D55ED522_sleeping.txt" log file you can
> >> see some tailed details about the OL2013 client
> >>
> >> OL2013 is working normal till 10:07:32: You can see "Sleeping for
> >> 15 seconds."
> >> In log again and again..
> >> From 10:07:32 - 10:12:50 -> nothing, sleeping, winter sleep..
> >> From 10:12:55 - 10:18:04 -> nothing, sleeping, winter sleep..
> >> From 10:18:05 - 10:23:23 -> nothing, sleeping, winter sleep..
> >> From 10:23:23 - 10:28:45 -> nothing, sleeping, winter sleep..
> >> From 10:28:50 - 10:34:08 -> nothing, sleeping, winter sleep..
> >> From 10:34:13 - 10:39:31 -> nothing, sleeping, winter sleep..
> >>
> >> Then 3 times:
> >> 2015-01-12T10:39:32+01:00 INFO: [3158] Sleeping for 15 seconds.
> >> 2015-01-12T10:39:47+01:00 INFO: [3158] Sleeping for 15 seconds.
> >> 2015-01-12T10:40:04+01:00 INFO: [3158] Sleeping for 15 seconds.
> >>
> >> From 10:40:23 - 10:45:41 -> nothing, sleeping, winter sleep..
> >>
> >> Then again lot of times:
> >> 2015-01-12T10:46:09+01:00 INFO: [10625] Sleeping for 15 seconds.
> >> 2015-01-12T10:46:25+01:00 INFO: [10625] Sleeping for 15 seconds.
> >> ..
> >>
> >> On 11:30:xx - I have marked 1 message as read on smartphone..
> >> From 11:30:16 - 11:48:24 -> nothing, sleeping, winter sleep.. (at
> >> 11:45:25 - I
> >> have deleted another 2 messages on smartphone, just to clarify log
> >> lines) From 11:48:28 - 12:08:05 -> nothing, sleeping, winter sleep..
> >> From 12:08:10 - 12:13:28 -> nothing, sleeping, winter sleep..
> >>
> >> OL2013 is showing "All folders are up-to-date" all the time..
> >>
> >> So what is maybe causing this big delays?
> >
> > What is your webserver configuration? Could it be that the process
> > that is looking for changes in the mailboxes is killed before the
> > $conf[activesync][ping][heartbeatmax] (in your case, 2700 seconds) is
> > elapsed? That might explain why some devices (which use a lower
> > heartbeat interval) may not notice anything strange, but one that does
> > use the maximum allowed time, to show erratic behaviour. The requests
> > will just timeout in that case, meaning your Outlook client expects to
> > be informed of any changes, but the process that should do that, died.
> >
> > Note that you should configure the idle time for your PHP processes
> > (and connections to them) to at least an hour, since ActiveSync allows
> > this to be up to 59 minutes. In my case, I had to set
> >
> >     ProxySet timeout=3600
> >
> > in my Apache config (I use mod_proxy_fcgi to connect to php-fpm) in
> > order to prevent this.
> >
> >> Could this be a BUG, so I could create a new BUG?
> >
> > I suspect this is just a process timing out.
>
>
> I agree. There is nothing in that log (other than the weird, non-sequential
> order of some of the timestamps and process
> numbers....) that looks like a bug to me at all.
>
Something strange I can't understand is WHY is there no "Sleeping for 15 
seconds" log entry anymore?
Horde is sleeping 15sec, right? So, also IF the HTTPS connection would 
timeout, Horde would sleep for 15sec.. I think..

Thanks!
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