Package: lockfile-progs Version: 0.1.17 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The lockfile-progs(1) man page states: -r retry-count, --retry retry-count Try to lock filename retry-count times before giving up. Each attempt will be delayed a bit longer than the last (in 5 second increments) until reaching a maximum delay of one minute between retries. If retry-count is unspecified, the default is 9 which will give up after 180 seconds (3 minutes) if all 9 lock attempts fail. The default value of 9 in fact results in a timeout of 3m45s (225s). A retry-count of 8 would lead to a timeout of 180s. Either the man page or the default retry count should be changed so that the times line up. The times I have calculated by crude means using LibreOffice Calc are: Retry Total wait 1 5 2 15 3 30 4 50 5 75 6 105 7 140 8 180 9 225 10 275 11 330 After 11, adding 1 to the retry counter increments the total wait by 60s, so for ~30mins wait (1830s, or 30m30s) the value should be 36. Alternatively, for times over 6 minutes, take the total desired wait time in minutes and add 5 to wait for 30s under the desired time, or 6 for 30s over the desired time. HTH, Chris -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.13-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lockfile-progs depends on: ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u1 ii liblockfile1 1.09-5 lockfile-progs recommends no packages. lockfile-progs suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
