Implementing rate controls to limit timeout-based faults

A computer system comprising the following:

• one or more processors;
• system memory;
• one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing system to perform a method for learning and adjusting an optimal timeout value, the method comprising the following:
• an act of monitoring a number of failures that occur due to timeout during a specified timeframe, the timeouts being defined by a timeout value;
• an act of determining that the timeout value is too high or too low based on the determined number of failures that occurred due to timeout during the specified timeframe;
• and
• an act of adjusting the timeout value to ensure that fewer than or equal to a specified number of failures occur during the specified timeframe.

A computer system comprising the following:

• one or more processors;
• system memory;
• one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing system to perform a method for learning and adjusting an optimal timeout value, the method comprising the following:
• an act of monitoring a number of failures that occur due to timeout during a specified timeframe, the timeouts being defined by a timeout value;
• an act of determining that the timeout value is too high or too low based on the determined number of failures that occurred due to timeout during the specified timeframe;
• and
• an act of adjusting the timeout value to ensure that fewer than or equal to a specified number of failures occur during the specified timeframe, wherein the number of failures that occur during the time frame specified by the timeout value is dynamically adjusted to minimize the timeout value while ensuring that fewer than or equal to the established number of failures occur within the time frame specified by the timeout value.