ok. That can work.. I believe I found the source of the issue on that as well. the RHEL ifup / ifdown scripts call ovs-vsctl directly w/o a time out set. If you'd like I can submit a patch for this and throw in a default of 30 seconds or something inside it.
-b On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 02:49:15PM -0700, bkruger wrote: > > I notice that if the db is unreachable, it attempts to reconnect. I'm > > looking at the code (not a C programmer, but can read some) and I see > that > > tries to reconnect infinitely. Is there a place where this can be set > to > > give up after X attempts? If you're on a RHEL box at least, if OVS was > > already stopped for whatever reason, if you try to shutdown or reboot, > you > > are stuck in an infinite loop and the only thing you can do is reset/pull > > the plug to reboot the machine. I would prefer that this is some sort > of > > a settable value as opposed to editing/recompiling code for each release. > > Just curious if that was on the map somewhere. > > There's not currently a way to stop after X attempts, but you can use > --timeout to stop after a given time. >
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