[squid-users] about read_timeout

I saw this in squid.conf:

# TAG: read_timeout time-units
# The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
# each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
# amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
# the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
# default is 15 minutes.
#
#Default:
# read_timeout 15 minutes

what's "server-side connections"? does it mean squid to originalserver
(or peers) or clients to squid?
Why this timeout has so high value? Thanks.
Received on Wed Dec 24 2008 - 02:54:14 MST