Bug 21616

Summary:	Disco requests timeout
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd>
Component:	gabble	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Sjoerd Simons 2009-05-07 08:11:01 UTC

Hi,

  Under some circumstances (heavy traffic, slow/dodgy network, etc) disco 
  requests from gabble time out. Not a big issues as it prevents the disco 
  pipeline from stalling. The downside is that gabble thinks the reply that 
  comes in later is an unknown iq and drops it, while it should use it to 
  learn which features correspond to a certain hash and use that to update the 
  capabilities.

  Sjoerd

Comment 1 Will Thompson 2009-08-20 05:28:05 UTC

The point of requests timing out is so that we don't wait indefinitely for
someone's caps to arrive, and so that we can send the disco request to another
contact who might reply sooner. But there are several different levels of
timing out that we could split up something like this:

» after l seconds, see if we can send the same disco request to a different
contact (who might answer sooner);
» after m seconds, if we're waiting on these caps to start a call, give up;
» after n seconds, stop waiting for the reply (to keep memory usage bounded).

This would be similar to how vCard requests were recently made to time out more
slowly.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 19:19:11 UTC

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