[Bugs] #2892 UNSP: Several Activities fail to launch in crowded jabber.sugarlabs.org Neighborhood

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#2892: Several Activities fail to launch in crowded jabber.sugarlabs.org
Neighborhood
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    Reporter:  FGrose                     |          Owner:  mchua pbrobinson sdz       
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:  11.2.0                     
Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Changes (by dsd):

 * cc: dsd, erikos (added)


Comment:

 While this is an important bug that should be investigated and fixed, in a
 sense I think the real problem is jabber.sugarlabs.org

 This jabber server is presenting so many buddies (thousands - I think)
 that gabble produces more dbus traffic than you can imagine, announcing
 buddy status via signals etc. I'm fairly confident that this bug would not
 appear on saner servers.

 I had a quick look at this issue anyway, and I didn't find much on my
 first glance. Sugar has timeouts on dbus calls going into the activity
 (usually SetActive), and the activity has timeouts on dbus calls going
 into sugar. dbus-monitor output didn't really agree with that, showing
 that SetActive had been called and returned, and I didn't see the failed
 call from the activity even appear on ths bus. Definitely worth looking
 further into, but the findings might be that dbus is simply too clogged up
 thanks to gabble noise.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2892#comment:8>
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