Hi Maxim, Reading the discussion…
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 10:49, zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the status of this old bug#30290 [1]? > > 1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/30290> > > On Wed, 09 Jun 2021 at 23:34, zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 at 22:55, zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 at 22:07, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> When a substitute server used by guix-daemon is offline, the daemon will >>>> keep attempting to connect to it, even when it shouldn't need any data >>>> (ran 'sudo guix system reconfigure my-config.scm' multiple times in a >>>> row. >>>> >>>> With the disconnected server (bayfront in my case), that command would >>>> take close to 8 minutes, with many system calls like: >>>> >>>> connect(14, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(443), >>>> sin_addr=inet_addr("141.255.128.56")}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS >>>> >>>> which wasted 5 seconds each time. >>>> >>>> After removing this server from my substitute servers list, the same >>>> operation (system reconfigure) is 8 times faster (1 minute). >>>> >>>> Suggestion: the daemon should stop trying to use the offline substitute >>>> server after trying for X times, and print a warning about it. >> >> [...] >> >>> From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> >>> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 22:04:04 -0500 (24 weeks, 4 days, 18 hours ago) >>> >>> I'm not sure if the recent offloading work that Mathieu did touched that >>> topic. I'd need to test the scenario. Perhaps a system test would be >>> useful. >>> ---------- >>> >>> From: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> >>> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:16:08 +0100 >>> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:16:08 +0100 (24 weeks, 1 day, 6 hours ago) >>> >>> Is it still a problem? Commit 4f5234be0378368e6af25925db46612838d25e58 >>> (Nov. 2019) added a table of unreachable hosts. That way, a ‘guix >>> substitute --query’ process won’t retry connections to an unreachable >>> host. >>> ---------- >>> >>> From: Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> >>> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:19:02 +0200 >>> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:19:02 +0200 (23 weeks, 2 days, 9 hours ago) >>> >>> Occasionally my internet drops itself, and I find I'm left forever >>> waiting for a timeout to see what sources I have cached locally. >>> ---------- >> >> What is the current stats of this bug? Is it still happening with the >> recent improvements of Cuirass? > > After reading all this, I think this bug can be closed. WDYT? …I appears to me that this bug could be close. WDYT? Cheers, simon