FW: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.5

FW: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.5

[Habermann, David (D)]

>> I just released a 5th TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release,
>> 1.7.33-0.5.

> Ever since using this 1.7.33-0.x series (currently running 1.7.33-0.5) 
> I've been having intermittent trouble with one of my scripts, and just 
> finally got around to digging further today.  This is an expect script 

It would appear, after a bit more digging, that this problem is related to some timeout issues.  Most of the time the ssh login goes rapidly, but occasionally it takes quite a lot longer triggering the expect default timeout.  When setting the timeout substantially longer, the reliability goes up substantially.

Dave

Re: FW: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.5

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Nov  5 22:38, Habermann, David (D) wrote:
> >> I just released a 5th TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release,
> >> 1.7.33-0.5.
> 
> > Ever since using this 1.7.33-0.x series (currently running 1.7.33-0.5) 
> > I've been having intermittent trouble with one of my scripts, and just 
> > finally got around to digging further today.  This is an expect script 
> 
> It would appear, after a bit more digging, that this problem is
> related to some timeout issues.  Most of the time the ssh login goes
> rapidly, but occasionally it takes quite a lot longer triggering the
> expect default timeout.  When setting the timeout substantially
> longer, the reliability goes up substantially.

Such phases wher checking for an account takes a bit longer just happen.
I don't see that Cygwin has this really under control.  Local caching
should alleviate this somewhat.


Corinna

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RE: FW: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.5

[Habermann, David (D)]

On Nov  5 22:38, Habermann, David (D) wrote:
>> It would appear, after a bit more digging, that this problem is
>> related to some timeout issues.  Most of the time the ssh login goes
>> rapidly, but occasionally it takes quite a lot longer triggering the
>> expect default timeout.  When setting the timeout substantially
>> longer, the reliability goes up substantially.

> Such phases wher checking for an account takes a bit longer just happen.
> I don't see that Cygwin has this really under control.  Local caching
> should alleviate this somewhat.

Seems that this is not taken care of by caching...I have cygserver running first, prior to anything else, and what I was finding was that the problem was intermittent, 20 rapid-fire tries would result in 2-3 random failures.