From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Request: timeout option for remote operations, esp. "git fetch"
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:00:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52825EBF.3050603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131110201751.GA18513@dcvr.yhbt.net>
On 11/10/2013 12:17 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> When a remote server is unavailable or very slow, some git commands can
>> stall out indefinitely. It would be a very good thing if remote
>> commands -- but especially git fetch -- could be given a timeout.
>
> We've had SO_KEEPALIVE on git and ssh transports since e47a8583 (2011-12-06)
> SO_KEEPALIVE for http was added recently (a15d069a) and will be in git 1.8.5
>
> Do you want a shorter timeout for slow (but still alive) servers?
>
Yes; note that SO_KEEPALIVE only guarantees that the server is alive at
the TCP socket level. If the server is overloaded but technically alive
it may still make no meaningful forward progress.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-12 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-07 17:07 Request: timeout option for remote operations, esp. "git fetch" H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-10 20:17 ` Eric Wong
2013-11-12 17:00 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-11-12 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-12 18:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-14 8:01 ` Jeff King
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