implications of asyncore.loop() timeout change

[Ray Price]

I've got a Linux Medusa server returning http pages via a Solaris 
Apache script (written in python to act as a proxy). For some reason 
the client does not see the complete page for 15-30 seconds.

So, I went in and changed the asyncore.loop() timeout value from 30.0 
to 0.5 and now pages are returned very quickly. 

The question is: what implications should I beware of when changing 
the timeout value in this way. FYI the asyncore module is shared 
between several other servers running XML-RPC and mxODBC.

Before I made the timeout change, a client requesting a page directly 
from the Medusa server would 'free the stuck' page back to the proxy.

Thanks for your comments,

Ray