[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
>
>
> 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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