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  1. Facter
  2. FACT-1478

EC2 facts intermittently unavailable due to overly optimistic timeouts

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Normal
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • FACT 2.4.6
    • FACT 2.4.7, FACT 2.5.0
    • None
    • None
      • Debian 7 (wheezy)
      • Linux 3.2.0
      • MRI 1.9.3p194
      • Facter 2.4.6

    Description

      facter/ec2/rest.rb

      This 0.2s timeout appears too optimistic in practice. It is not unusual for this confinement test to return a false negative on EC2 instances.

      My testing has shown that increasing the timeout to 0.5s should achieve an acceptable failure rate.

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            saj Saj Goonatilleke
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