[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Increase guest startup timeout to 30 seconds

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:49:40AM +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > Currently the timeout for reading startup output is 3 seconds. If the
> > host is under any sort of load, we can easily trigger this. Lets bump
> > it to 30 seconds.
> > 
> > Since the polling loop checks to see if the process has died, we shouldn't
> > erroneously hit this timeout if qemu bombs (only if it is stuck in some
> > infinite loop).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> It wouldn't be hard to make it fail even with 30 seconds timeout but then it
> doesn't really make sense to try to start a new guest on a host which is under
> such a big load. I think we should be fine with 30 seconds unless we want to
> optimize for stuck qemu.

  Hum, 30 seconds sounds a lot to me, I hope this won't mean a user
waiting for a 30 second timeout in some weird cases. But we were hitting
the 3s one way too easilly, going all th way to 30 should allow to
detect if/when this timeout reflects at the user level and clean those case
up

  so ACK,

Daniel

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