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From: "Fabian Grünbichler" <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
To: Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server 1/2] Fix #2816: increase timeout for allocation on restore
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 14:36:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1597149316.pyafbcpqc0.astroid@nora.none> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200804113244.26810-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com>

On August 4, 2020 1:32 pm, Fabian Ebner wrote:
> qcow2 images are allocated with --preallocation=metadata,
> which can take a while for large images.
> Avoid using 'got timeout' as an error message by itself,
> to make it clearer where a timeout occured.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
> ---
>  PVE/QemuServer.pm | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
> index 0a09f3a..8b0b2c8 100644
> --- a/PVE/QemuServer.pm
> +++ b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
> @@ -6261,7 +6261,7 @@ sub restore_vma_archive {
>  	    local $SIG{QUIT} =
>  	    local $SIG{HUP} =
>  	    local $SIG{PIPE} = sub { die "interrupted by signal\n"; };
> -	local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "got timeout\n"; };
> +	local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "got timeout preparing device images\n"; };
>  
>  	$oldtimeout = alarm($timeout);
>  
> @@ -6275,9 +6275,9 @@ sub restore_vma_archive {
>  		$devinfo->{$devname} = { size => $size, dev_id => $dev_id };
>  	    } elsif ($line =~ m/^CTIME: /) {
>  		# we correctly received the vma config, so we can disable
> -		# the timeout now for disk allocation (set to 10 minutes, so
> +		# the timeout now for disk allocation (set to 1 hour, so
>  		# that we always timeout if something goes wrong)

do we really need this timeout? we are by definition in a worker 
already, instead of moving the goal post once more could we not drop 
this and let the user hit 'Stop' if the allocation stalls altogether?

> -		alarm(600);
> +		alarm(60 * 60);
>  		&$print_devmap();
>  		print $fifofh "done\n";
>  		my $tmp = $oldtimeout || 0;
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-11 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-04 11:32 Fabian Ebner
2020-08-04 11:32 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server 2/2] Add missing die statements Fabian Ebner
2020-08-11 12:35   ` [pve-devel] applied: " Fabian Grünbichler
2020-08-11 12:36 ` Fabian Grünbichler [this message]
2020-08-12  8:38   ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server 1/2] Fix #2816: increase timeout for allocation on restore Fabian Ebner

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