Startup time with large metadata?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 4/29/15, 3:59 PM, "Peter Schober" <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:



>* Kristof Bajnok <bajnokk at niif.hu> [2015-04-29 15:35]:
>> what's the typical startup time with eduGAIN metadata (14MB) at an
>> SP?
>
>Jfyi, on a CentOS6 box with the official RPMs and loading a SAML
>metadata document that also includes most everything from eduGAIN
>(some 16MB worth of XML) the rc.d init script thinks it fails to
>restart shibd, due to a timeout.
>(The start in fact works but the script doesn't seem to realize this.)

It's a timeout set before the fork parent returns, and can be adjusted to 
get it reporting success again, but there's no fixed value to use since it 
will wait that long and annoy everybody else.

-- Scott