[Users] Installing Host - action is taking longer than allowed by configuration

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "xrx" <xrx-ml at xrx.me>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2012 7:59:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Installing Host - action is taking longer than allowed by	configuration
> 
> On 09/01/12 01:09, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Mohsen Saeedi"<mohsen.saeedi at gmail.com>
> >> To: users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 11:57:59 PM
> >> Subject: [Users] Installing Host - action is taking longer than
> >> allowed by	configuration
> >>
> >> ...
> >>    The required action is taking longer than allowed by
> >>    configuration.
> >> I know the reason for it. i have very slow connection. I think
> >> ovirt
> >> clean yum metadata and try to get metadata again. but my internet
> >> connection  is very slow (about 64Kb/s)  and takes a lot of time
> >> to
> >> finish. how can i increase the allowed time by configuration or
> >> some
> >> change on postgresql database.?
> > Hi,
> >
> > You can set the SSHInactivityTimoutSeconds within vdc_options
> > table.
> >
> > # psql -d engine -U postgres -c "update vdc_options set
> > option_value = 600 where option_name =
> > 'SSHInactivityTimoutSeconds';"
> 
> Is having a hard-coded timeout really a good idea? I have had the
> same
> problem; surely there must be a better way of implementing this than
> a
> timeout (which is essentially guessing how fast everyone's internet
> connection/machine would be)?
> 
> Meanwhile perhaps the timeout should be changed to a very large
> value;
> and maybe even a mention of where the log is kept
> (/tmp/vds_bootstrap...) so the user can see the progress.
> 
> 
> -Rizvi

You are correct.

While rewriting the SSH implementation in master, I added two separate timeouts: soft timeout, hard timeout.
- Soft timeout is a timeout since last communication activity.
- Hard timeout is a timeout of the complete process.

Soft timeout is not currently used, but in near future I will also make use of it. It will enable to extend the hard timeout to much larger value.

Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.