repo: Bump lock timeout to 5 minutes

And update the doc text to talk about having a timeout at all
by default being a mistake.

Timeouts are really best handled at a higher level; if two processes
are contending for the ostree lock and one is actually frozen,
resolving this is something an admin may want to handle and introspect/debug
instead of having the waiter error out.

Most people using ostree are doing it in a way in which they have
higher level timeouts (e.g. on a container pod).
This commit is contained in:
Colin Walters 2023-08-17 08:26:29 -04:00
parent 55121cc4df
commit e88ec69eef
2 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -229,7 +229,10 @@ License along with this library. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<term><varname>lock-timeout-secs</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Integer value controlling the number of seconds to
block while attempting to acquire a lock (see above). A value
of -1 means block indefinitely. The default value is 30.
of -1 means block indefinitely. The default value is 300. This timeout
is now regarded as a mistake; because it's likely to cause flakes.
It's recommended to set it to -1, and have timeouts at a higher application
level if desired.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

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@ -3081,7 +3081,7 @@ reload_core_config (OstreeRepo *self, GCancellable *cancellable, GError **error)
{
g_autofree char *lock_timeout_seconds = NULL;
if (!ot_keyfile_get_value_with_default (self->config, "core", "lock-timeout-secs", "30",
if (!ot_keyfile_get_value_with_default (self->config, "core", "lock-timeout-secs", "300",
&lock_timeout_seconds, error))
return FALSE;