Also, you may not use breakpoints as normal when working with the SoftDevice, since the breakpoint will halt the CPU which will cause the SoftDevice to assert as soon as it is restarted - since the SoftDevice misses all its timing critical deadlines when the CPU is halted.
The advertising interval only configures the time in between each advertising. The advertising duration or timeout is what determines how long the device will be advertising. The device will be in the low-power SYSTEM_ON idle state in between each advertising, and wake up when an advertising event is upcoming.
This will depend on your application, but in the BLE peripheral example's cases: Yes, unless there are other parts of the application keeping the CPU awake.
