On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:27:15 -0700
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
but that does not explain how the yum hang
remained - holding the connection "hostage" - that is the
part I cannot fathom....
I see these sorts of hangs all the time with lots of
testing going on on a big collection of both real and
virtual machines using NFS and ssh and wot-not. I don't
know exactly what the heck network timeouts timeout
on, but I often get things hung for hours with network
problems. Somehow networks go down but act like they are up :-).
I finally put independent fallback timeouts in my
test drivers to kill things off after they haven't
finished in about 300% of the time they normally take.
That at least stopped things from permanently clogging
the test queues.