[asterisk-gui] long delay on login

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:15:25PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The following seems to happen to us ever since upgrading from the
> version used in our previous live CD:
> 
>   http://updates.xorcom.com/rapid/dists/live-2-0-0/main/binary-i386/Packages
> 
> asterisk       1.6.2.0~dfsg~beta4-0.7501
> asterisk-gui   2.0.4.9.svn.4809-0.7324
> 
> There is a log delay after the login: I see the message "Checking write
> permission for gui folder" for a log while. Then I see the message 
> "detecting Hardware" (BTW: that message is duplicated in the code ) for
> a similar time period.
> 
> It seems that those timeouts are always exact minutes. That is:
> multiplues of 60 seconds.

And indeed, 60000 milliseconds is the timeout set in the makeRequest()
call in systeCmd (js/astman.js) . Reducing the timeout to, e.g. 6000,
made the login take much less.

When is this time-out used? What was missed?

> 
> In Asterisk I see quite a few events in the manager eventq (manager show
> eventq).
> 
> I already had timeouts of 1, 2 and 3 minutes. No extra CPU activity is
> noted.
> 
> As a last resort I consider just saying our custoers that they need to
> wait (or get a better browser).

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