International Business Machines Corporation
Optimizing timeouts and polling intervals

Abstract:

An approach is provided for managing a timeout and polling interval of an operation of an application. A recommendation specifying the timeout and polling interval is selected. The timeout and polling interval are applied to a deployed image. Based on polling intervals, numbers of polls for operations, identifications of the operations, and environments of the operations, a minimum number of polls of the operation in an environment before a successful completion of the operation is determined and an old polling interval used between the polls of the operation is determined. If the minimum number of polls is greater than one, the polling interval specified in the recommendation is determined as the minimum number of polls multiplied by the old polling interval. If the minimum number of polls equals one, the polling interval specified in the recommendation is determined by decreasing the old polling interval by a configurable factor.