The sleep interval determines how long the master session sleeps after querying the repository for activity information in the absence of a notification from Content Server. If the sleep interval expires without a notification, the master session wakes up and queries the repository even though it has not received a notification from Content Server. The default sleep interval is 5 seconds. You cannot change this value in Documentum Administrator. Use IDQL to change the value.

The sleep interval is controlled by the wf_sleep_interval property in the server config object. The value is interpreted in seconds. You must stop and restart Content Server for your change to take effect. Reinitializing the server does not make the change effective.