Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:21:35 +0200 | From | Gerd Hoffmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] xen: wait up to 5 minutes for device connection |
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On 07/03/09 18:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:12:51PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Increases the device timeout from 10s to 5 minutes, giving the user a visual >> indication during that time in case there are problems. The patch is a >> backport of changesets 144, 146, 150 and 909 in the Xenbits tree. > > Why would it take 5 minutes to wait for a device?
Usually it is *much* faster, but when the host is quite loaded it can take a unusual long time. With 10 seconds it happends in practice now and then that a virtual machine fails to boot just because the virtual root disk didn't show up fast enough.
cheers, Gerd
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