[Yum] bad yum repo hanging yum client?

[Michael Stenner]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:12:40PM -0400, David L. Parsley wrote:
> Some more info:
> this is an ftp repo, and it's the control-channel that's just sitting 
> there ESTABLISHED.  send & recv queue are both 0.  I'm guessing that http 
> is more reliable, and should be used instead of ftp?

Well, I hate to say it, but I think that's probably true.  The python
http code (httplib) gets more love than ftplib.  So in general, yes,
http is a bit more stable and reliable.  Also, it's a bit harder for
us to test ftp stuff, which makes problems harder to track down.

					-Michael

> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 09:21, David L. Parsley wrote:
> >>On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 09:01, seth vidal wrote:
> >>>On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 08:51 -0400, David L. Parsley wrote:
> >>>>I had a user report which I've now duplicated: the yum nightly cronjob
> >>>>hung.  netstat -t -p revealed it still had an ESTABLISHED connection to
> >>>>a repo, and strace -p (yum process) showed it sitting and waiting in a
> >>>>read(6, ...), where 6 is a socket; I'm guessing it was trying to read
> >>>>something from the repository, but just not getting anything.  Is it
> >>>>possible there's a transfer that's not timing out?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Yes or they could have set retries to 0 and it's infinitely retrying.
> >>
> >>Ok, retries isn't set, so defaulting to 6; this is yum 2.0.7, btw.
> >>Should there be a client timeout on transfers?
> >>
> >
> >It's not obvious this is something that can be done without forking off
> >the download process. I'm not really sure how to monitor the downloader
> >to create some other timeout.
> >
> >-sv
> >
> >
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