[darcs-devel] ssh hangs

[David Roundy]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:15:25PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> David:
> 
> > Just to be clear, the first time I connect with darcs via ssh to a
> > particular server, darcs hangs and won't respond to any ordinary kill (or
> > ctrl-C).  It can still be killed with kill -9.
> 
> Okay, that explains what I've been seeing.

Does this mean you've been experiencing the same trouble?

> > The silliness of it all is that I use ssh-agent, so the control-master
> > stuff is all redundant.
> 
> FWIW, it isn't -- you still avoid multiple ssh handshakes.  An ssh
> handshake can take up to 10 seconds on a slow connection, and up to
> a minute on slow machines.  (And people are setting cheap MIPS and ARM
> machines as network servers.)

Good point.  Only, it's not a good tradeoff to speed up darcs operation,
and occasionally hang indefinitely.  :(
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University