title: How does the timeout setting for gunicorn works?
body: <p>The documentation for gunicorn says the following about --timeout setting.
  "Workers silent for more than this many seconds are killed and restarted."
  What do we mean by silent here. What if our app does not get a request for 2 days. Would this initiate a worker shutdown? We have a flask app that serves only 5 users and those users might connect once a week.</p>