Network glitches costing 15 minutes a pop

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 10:46 +1000, Mark Hammond wrote:
> Fairly regularly, I notice pulling a small number of updates from launchpad
> can take a very long time - 30 minutes isn't uncommon.  Looking in the logs,
> I see:
..
> It seems to me that little network glitches aren't particularly
> unexpected -
> but waiting 15 minutes when it happens isn't that friendly.  Is this
> something specific to Windows?  Specific to pycurl?  Any suggestions
> about
> what we can do to make such errors have less of an impact?

I'm smelling a TCP timeout; 903 seconds is just too regular a number.

What is error 18 - lets determine if its pycurl or a windows socket
error; and see what type it is.

I would guess at a broken intercepting proxy if I had to guess. But lets
not guess.

-Rob

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