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Current state: "Under Discussion"
Discussion thread: here [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread]
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We have expressed the need to increase this timeout to avoid ConnectException during these spikes (see discussion thread here). This This KIP proposes making this timeout a configurable worker parameter to allow operators to tune it according to their environment's performance characteristics.
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