Re: [Duplicity-talk] slowness+ ftp timeouts with 0.4.3-rc1

[Kenneth Loafman]

Nicolas Aspert wrote:
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>
> > Patch 5183 had a problem in that it would open a new connection, and a
> > new login, on every retry.  The change above was made so that it would
> > not keep opening a new connection on every retry.  Now, once you are
> > logged in, the connection is open and retries only retry the failed
> > operation, and does not create a new concurrent login.
>
> That looks sound to me. Could it be that 0.4.3-rc1 is slow beyond reason
> because it makes a lot more retries than 0.4.2+patch did ? (since it
> reopens a new ftp connection upon timeout, it has the initial 300s
> timeout). If this is a case, it may be a better strategy to close the
> connection and reopen it if a timeout occurs.

I'll have a fix out later today.  When the remote system drops the 
connection, we need to quit and reconnect, not just reconnect.

The timeout goes up with every retry of the error, but resets once the 
error is resolved, so that should not be a problem.

...Ken