Problem with long Sub-agent response time

[Makavy, E. \(Erez\) <ma...@av...>]

Hi,
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I got a couple of question:
1) What is the actual time limit for a sub-agent to respond to a
request?
2) What normally happens when a sub-agent take too long?
     I noticed that if I put sleep(3) in a sub-agent request handling, I
sometimes crush on a BROKEN-PIPE.
     what should I do to avoid the crash?
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Erez.