Hi Maxim, On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 at 22:07, Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > After removing this server from my substitute servers list, the same > operation (system reconfigure) is 8 times faster (1 minute). > > Suggestion: the daemon should stop trying to use the offline substitute > server after trying for X times, and print a warning about it.
This looks like as a wishlist, right? Do it make sense to include such feature to the recent discussions about the revamp of offloading, Cuirass, publish, etc. All the best, simon
