Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 499

If a read or write on a communication port is interrupted, retry this many times before giving up. This
value should be set quite high on FreeBSD because internal interrupts are sent to all threads.
On Linux, the
NO_ALARM
net_read_timeout
timer cancels the current statement until after the failing connection has been waited on an additional
net_retry_count
setting) × (net_retry_count+1).
•
net_write_timeout
Command-Line Format
Option-File Format
Option Sets Variable
Variable Name
Variable Scope
Dynamic Variable
The number of seconds to wait for a block to be written to a connection before aborting the write.
This timeout applies only to TCP/IP connections, not to connections made using Unix socket files,
named pipes, or shared memory. See also
On Linux, the
NO_ALARM
net_retry_count
• [479]
new
Command-Line Format
Option-File Format
Option Sets Variable
Variable Name
Variable Scope
Dynamic Variable
Disabled by
Server System Variables
Platform
64
Bit Size
Type
numeric
Default
10
Range
1 .. 18446744073709547520
build flag (-DNO_ALARM) modifies how the binary treats both
[478] and
net_write_timeout
[478] times. This means that the effective timeout value becomes
[479]
--net_write_timeout=#
net_write_timeout
Yes,
net_write_timeout
net_write_timeout
Global, Session
Yes
Permitted Values
Type
numeric
Default
60
Min
1
Value
net_read_timeout
build flag affects timeout behavior as indicated in the description of the
[478] system variable.
--new
-n
new
Yes, [479]
new
new
Global, Session
Yes
skip-new
Permitted Values
Type
boolean
Default
FALSE
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[479]. With this flag enabled, neither
[479]
[478].
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