Bug 767664

Summary: 150 second timeout in spice
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jerry James <loganjerry>
Component: spiceAssignee: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: alexl, cfergeau, hdegoede, jforbes, kraxel, marcandre.lureau
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Description Jerry James 2011-12-14 16:14:34 UTC
Description of problem:
I use virt-manager.  I switched my guests from VNC to spice, and am mostly very happy.  However, 4 or 5 times per day, something triggers a 150 second timeout.  During that time, all guests are unresponsive.  Also, I can't do anything on the host, because the guest that triggers the timeout still has the keyboard focus.  I have tried to pay attention to general system load, but that seems unrelated to the problem.  Yesterday afternoon I had two guest VMs running and a compile going on the host, and did not trigger the problem.  This morning I only have 1 guest VM running and both it and the host are mostly idle, yet the timeout has already triggered 3 times.

I *have* noticed that it appears to be related to redisplay.  The timeout almost always occurs when I do something that triggers a repaint of an entire window.  (XEmacs does this a lot.  I'm an XEmacs developer.  Therefore, I edit files in my guests with XEmacs...)

Also, once the 150 second timeout period passes, the guest window does not redraw itself properly.  I have to close it and open a new one.  Sadly, opening a new window causes a full repaint of the entire guest desktop, which sometimes triggers the timeout again instantly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
spice-server-0.9.1-1.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Frequently

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run a guest VM with spice
2. Run a program in the guest that frequently repaints its entire window
3. Wait
  
Actual results:
The guest window becomes unresponsive for a 150 second time period, and the window has to be closed and reopened afterward.

Expected results:
No timeouts.

Additional info:
I see two 150 second timeout values defined in the spice sources, both in server/red_worker.c: DETACH_TIMEOUT and DISPLAY_CLIENT_TIMEOUT.

Comment 1 Jerry James 2012-01-12 18:38:19 UTC
I haven't had this happen once since spice-server-0.10.0-1.fc16.x86_64 came through, so I'm going to close this bug.  Thank you!  It's quite a relief to not have that happen anymore.