Startup time with large metadata?

[Peter Schober]

* Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> [2015-04-29 18:12]:
> >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.

ACK.

Maybe changing -w 30 to -w $wait and moving the timeout setting to
/etc/sysconfig/shibd (on RHEL/CentOS) would help, if people cared
enough about "OK" or "FAILED" messages from the init script?
-peter