01/04: nginx: hydra.gnu.org: Increase timeouts for /nar URLs.

[Ludovic Courtès]

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commit 7eb809181d489f51551fe078f55ff4a4a15452f5
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Mar 24 11:23:09 2016 +0100

    nginx: hydra.gnu.org: Increase timeouts for /nar URLs.
---
 hydra/nginx/hydra.gnu.org-locations.conf |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hydra/nginx/hydra.gnu.org-locations.conf 
b/hydra/nginx/hydra.gnu.org-locations.conf
index a64cb71..eb1a61f 100644
--- a/hydra/nginx/hydra.gnu.org-locations.conf
+++ b/hydra/nginx/hydra.gnu.org-locations.conf
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ location /nar/ {
 
     proxy_ignore_client_abort on;
 
+    # Be more tolerant of delays when fetching a nar.  Using a shorter
+    # timeout leads to users retrying, which in turns triggers another
+    # "nix-store --dump foo | bzip2" process, which quickly brings the
+    # machine down.
+    proxy_read_timeout 60s;
+    proxy_send_timeout 60s;
+
     # Disable chunked encoding to avoid enormous chunks.
     #chunked_transfer_encoding off;