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Expand Up @@ -195,6 +195,13 @@ by tests that fail. Unfortunately we do not currently have a way to notify you
only of failures on your builders, so doing periodic spot checks is also a good
idea.

.. note::
If your buildbot worker is disconnecting regularly, it may be a symptom of the
default ``keepalive`` value (``600`` for 10 minutes) being `set
<https://docs.buildbot.net/latest/manual/installation/worker.html#cmdoption-buildbot-worker-create-worker-keepalive>`_
too high. You can change it to a lower value (e.g. ``180`` for 3 minutes)
in the ``buildbot.tac`` file found in your build area.


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