GNU bug report logs - #50040
[PATCH 0/2] publish: Always render nar/narinfo during backing.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50040 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50040: [PATCH 0/2] publish: Always render nar/narinfo
 during backing.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:33:21 +0200

Hi!

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> I think this is caused by the following lines in the Berlin Nginx
> configuration:
>
> ;; Do not tolerate slowness of hydra.gnu.org when fetching
> ;; narinfos: better return 504 quickly than wait forever.
> "proxy_connect_timeout 2s;"
> "proxy_read_timeout 2s;"
> "proxy_send_timeout 2s;"
>
> The narinfos that are not in cache yet are computed in the main thread,
> slowing down the publish process. Under pressure, computing those
> narinfo can exceed the 2s timeout resulting in the failures above.
>
> Our best course of action here could be to merge the proposed patches,
> extend the Nginx timeout to 10s and see if all the requests can be
> handled quickly enough.

Yeah, increasing these timeouts a little bit (to 5–7s? making it too
long could lead to annoyances) sounds reasonable.

Ludo’.

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