On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 04:16:08PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > > > When a substitute server used by guix-daemon is offline, the daemon will > > keep attempting to connect to it, even when it shouldn't need any data > > (ran 'sudo guix system reconfigure my-config.scm' multiple times in a > > row. > > > > With the disconnected server (bayfront in my case), that command would > > take close to 8 minutes, with many system calls like: > > > > connect(14, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(443), sin_addr=inet_addr("141.255.128.56")}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS > > > > which wasted 5 seconds each time. > > Is it still a problem? Commit 4f5234be0378368e6af25925db46612838d25e58 > (Nov. 2019) added a table of unreachable hosts. That way, a ‘guix > substitute --query’ process won’t retry connections to an unreachable > host. > > Ludo’. > Occasionally my internet drops itself, and I find I'm left forever waiting for a timeout to see what sources I have cached locally. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted