I just tracked down a bug in one of our servers that uses twisted PB. The long and short of it was that the server made remote calls to clients that connected in and in some cases those clients would fall off the network (disconnected network cable, etc) but the server would not detect this.
I tracked this down to TCP timeouts not telling twisted rapidly enough that the clients were offline. What I was going to use to solve this was to put a timeout on the remoteCall() by calling setTimeout on the deferred returned when making the call. Then if the deferred does not fire soon enough I could treat this as a dead client detection and clean up it's resources. The problem is that it looks like Deferred.setTimeout is deprecated. (see: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/tags/releases/twisted-9.0.0/twisted/internet/defer.py#L350) Is there some other suitable way to set a timeout on a remoteCall when using PB? -Allen _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
