[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] lower fixed timeout values

[Sumit Bose]

Stephen Gallagher schrieb:
> Sumit Bose wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> this patch lowers some hardcoded timeout values. 'getent groups' with
>> rawhide1.fedoraproject.org needs some time on my notebook and while the
>> client is waiting for 300s for a response the proxy backend got killed
>> by the monitor and the sysdb call run into a timeout, too.
> 
>> bye,
>> Sumit
> 
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> 
> Nack.
> 
> If we're going to lower those timeouts for these reasons, I'd rather see
> their value being tied to the timeouts they interfere with. For example,
> if the socket timeout is causing the monitor to kill the service, then
> we need to have a check in the configuration that the monitor check time
> must be greater than the socket timeout.
> 

I agree, I think it would make sense to define a very small number, or
maybe only one, base timeout values and derive all other from them.

Do we want 'getent passwd' to return after a fixed time or only when all
information is read and shown to the user?

bye,
Sumit