conf: stalled-download-timeout: make tunable

Make curl's low speed limit configurable via stalled-download-timeout.
Before, this limit was five minutes without receiving a single byte.
This is much too long as if the remote end may not have even
acknowledged the HTTP request.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/download.cc b/src/libstore/download.cc
index 91087eebcfcb..c322d267d4f2 100644
--- a/src/libstore/download.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/download.cc
@@ -236,8 +236,6 @@ struct CurlDownloader : public Downloader
             return ((DownloadItem *) userp)->readCallback(buffer, size, nitems);
         }
 
-        long lowSpeedTimeout = 300;
-
         void init()
         {
             if (!req) req = curl_easy_init();
@@ -297,7 +295,7 @@ struct CurlDownloader : public Downloader
             curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, downloadSettings.connectTimeout.get());
 
             curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 1L);
-            curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, lowSpeedTimeout);
+            curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, downloadSettings.stalledDownloadTimeout.get());
 
             /* If no file exist in the specified path, curl continues to work
                anyway as if netrc support was disabled. */
diff --git a/src/libstore/download.hh b/src/libstore/download.hh
index 3b7fff3ba4cb..c68381846948 100644
--- a/src/libstore/download.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/download.hh
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ struct DownloadSettings : Config
     Setting<unsigned long> connectTimeout{this, 0, "connect-timeout",
         "Timeout for connecting to servers during downloads. 0 means use curl's builtin default."};
 
+    Setting<unsigned long> stalledDownloadTimeout{this, 300, "stalled-download-timeout",
+        "Timeout (in seconds) for receiving data from servers during download. Nix cancels idle downloads after this timeout's duration."};
+
     Setting<unsigned int> tries{this, 5, "download-attempts",
         "How often Nix will attempt to download a file before giving up."};
 };