[volunteergrid2-l] [ej3fw] connection timeouts

Shawn Willden shawn at willden.org
Wed Mar 28 12:03:17 UTC 2012


I don't know... all we really need to work around the problem is for
stercor at timesoak to have that setting.  It seems unnecessary to make it a
general configuration setting.  I can't think what harm it would do, though.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I vote yes as it has seemed to have a positive effect.
>
> Brad
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>
> On 3/26/2012 9:01 PM, Jody Harris wrote:
>
>> Okay, "vote" time:
>>
>> Are we going to add the timeout setting to the recommended configuration?
>> Yes?
>> No?
>>
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>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org
>> <mailto:shawn at willden.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    FYI, I've been uploading all day with no problems.  I'm not getting
>>    the high data rates (~300 KBps) that I got last year when the grid
>>    was smaller, but they're still quite reasonable (~100 KBps) and I
>>    think they're probably a result of the greater geographic diversity
>>    we've achieved -- which is a good tradeoff!
>>
>>
>>    On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Steve Dodson
>>    <steve.dodson at gmail.com <mailto:steve.dodson at gmail.com**>> wrote:
>>
>>        Thanks Brian for looking into this!  The timeout config has been
>>        added to both rhp99 and hiro
>>
>>
>>        On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Iantcho Vassilev
>>        <ianchov at gmail.com <mailto:ianchov at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>            timeout.keepalive=120 added
>>
>>
>>            Great work :)
>>
>>            Iantcho
>>
>>
>>            On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 17:28, Shawn Willden
>>            <shawn at willden.org <mailto:shawn at willden.org>> wrote:
>>
>>                Great work, Brian!
>>
>>                I've added the keepalive to my configuration.  I'll
>>                watch it for a bit to see if the behavior looks good.
>>
>>
>>                On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Brian Warner
>>                <warner at lothar.com <mailto:warner at lothar.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>                    I did some brief digging this afternoon, uploading
>>                    small files and
>>                    watching with a packet sniffer. I was connected to
>>                    15 out of 17 servers
>>                    (all but ianchov's [aty4r] and slush-backup's [2na4j]).
>>
>>                    One thing I observed was that my connection to
>>                    stercor's server (ej3fw)
>>                    was dropping and reconnecting about once every 16
>>                    minutes. I noticed
>>                    this by looking at the "Since" column on the welcome
>>                    page's server list:
>>                    it shows a timestamp of a few seconds after node
>>                    reboot for most
>>                    servers, but that one server showed a fairly recent
>>                    timestamp, changing
>>                    every once in a while.
>>
>>                    I think I figured it out, and have a workaround (as
>>                    well as notes on
>>                    tools to build to help diagnose the issue more
>>                    easily). I'll write a
>>                    longer letter to the tahoe-dev list with the
>>                    details, so everyone can
>>                    see them. For VG2's purposes, my advice is to do at
>>                    least one of:
>>
>>                      1: add [node]timeout.keepalive=120 to all client's
>>                    tahoe.cfg
>>                      2: have stercor add timeout.keepalive=120 to the
>>                    server's tahoe.cfg
>>                      3: have stercor reconfigure the NAT/router box to
>>                    increase the timeout
>>                        for "idle" TCP connections to at least 10
>>                    minutes (it currently
>>                        might be set to more like 5 minutes)
>>
>>                    I this this might explain a few problems, but I've
>>                    certainly seen others
>>                    that this doesn't account for. I'll keep digging.
>>
>>                    cheers,
>>                      -Brian
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