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Brock Noland commented on HIVE-7140: ------------------------------------ I propose we increase the default timeout to 5 minutes, because in the current state false positives are extremely common. Increasing this to 5 minutes means that true positives, timing out when the HMS is actually down, will take considerably longer. I believe this to be reasonable trade-off since true positives are rare. > Bump default hive.metastore.client.socket.timeout to 5 minutes > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-7140 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7140 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Brock Noland > > The issue is that OOTB clients often face timeouts when using HMS since many > operations in the HMS completes are long running (e.g. many operations on a > table with many partitions). A few supporting pieces of information: > * The default value of hive.metastore.client.socket.timeout is 20 seconds. > * Since the timeout is client only, the server happy continues doing the > requested work > * Clients retry after a small delay to perform the requested work again, > often while the server is still trying to complete the original request -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)