Comment 5 for bug 567180

For the record, here's what I get when I ran my timing script against edge just now.

Import cost: 0.19 sec
Startup cost: 32.92 sec
First fetch took 12.03 sec

That's 33 seconds to get the WADL and JSON service root representations, and 12 seconds to get a collection of fifty bugs. That's incredibly slow, and I don't know what's behind it unless our bandwidth is maxed out because of the upcoming Ubuntu release. The WADL representation, in particular, is cached in memory and just dumped out through the socket.

I don't know what the default socket timeout is--supposedly it's a Python default, but near as I can tell the Python default is None, which implies you'd _never_ get a socket timeout. Maybe there's a separate SSL timeout?

I was messing around trying to duplicate your script on staging, and I got a timeout on the web site (OOPS-1572S195). I think we've got a much more general problem than launchpadlib or the web service being slow.