Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr access problems

[Martin Pool]

On 18 October 2011 10:34, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
>    Also, I remind you that there's evidently another (or the same)
>    problem on Savannah that drops the connection after 1 hour.
>
> Due to runaway processes killing the system, we instituted that
> hardwired timeout some time ago:
>
> exec timeout 60m /usr/bin/bzr "$@"
>
> I just increased it to 120m.
>
> I know of no feasible way to determine whether the connection is
> actually active.  I can imagine various infeasible ways, but I think
> they would all cause more trouble than they would save.  I hope it is
> merely a matter of rerunning the command that got killed off at the
> magic moment, so not losing significant amounts of work.

bzr 2.5b2 has a builtin timeout to drop idle connections
<http://pad.lv/824797>.  I don't know if that would fix the "go crazy"
case.  If you see that, please file a bug with a traceback and/or
strace.

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