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

[Christian Theune]

On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:53:24 +0100
Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> wrote:

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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).

It's only a command line option right now. Making it configurable
through a buildout option would be nice too.

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