[Zope-dev] Lower default socket timeout for buildout?

[Andreas Jung]

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On 01.02.2009 20:54 Uhr, Christian Theune wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in the last week I noticed that reducing buildout's socket timeout to
> something relatively low (3-5 seconds) made a lot of buildouts go much
> faster.
> 
> It looks like various package metadata points off to bad
> servers that hang.
> 
> I haven't had a buildout fail on me because of setting such
> a low timeout -- I only got annoyed when running with the longer
> default.
> 
> I wonder whether it might be an idea to lower the
> default in general?


At least I added a patch to buildout at some time ago in order to
make the default timeout configurable through a command-line option
(or was it a buildout options - I can't remember).

ANdreas
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