On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 01:06:36PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > This is rather sparse documentation of the knob. If I were a regular > sysadmin I probably wouldn't know if I want to tweak this or not. On the > other hand, we don't want regular sysadmins to touch this :-) I've experienced just a few timeout related issues in the past on the nodes I manage. At that time, I adjusted this knob and temporarily surpassed it. Note that the essential problem appears to have been fixed in the master branch. > So this wil set the timeout globally. Meaning, if I start a domain it will > by default use 30 seconds timeout. But then, if I'd change the config and > restart the daemon the domain would use the new value. > On the other hand, that might not be necessary. So if you send the expanded > comment for the knob then I can merge these. Yes, this knob is applied to all domains when the libivrtd process is restarted, as you said. However, I don't understand exactly how this knob will affect the entire system. So, this knob worked well in my environment, but may not be needed in other users' environments.
