When launching nova-compute service, connection to mysql times out. (The compute node is separate from the node running mysql)

In slow network situations, it seems that the default timeout in db_pool.py::BaseConnectionPool, line 18 (5 sec) is too low. If the default is changed to 10, the connection succeeds (in my situation).

With that said, i'm not sure this is configurable.

So, my question is, can the mysql connection timeout be configured in nova.conf? (I tried sql_idle_timeout with no affect)

Trace: 2011-10-23 21:34:37,784 INFO nova.db.sqlalchemy [-] Using mysql/eventlet db_pool. 2011-10-23 21:34:42,791 CRITICAL nova [-] (nova): TRACE: Traceback (most recent call last): (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/bin/nova-compute", line 49, in <module> (nova): TRACE: service.wait() (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/service.py", line 357, in wait (nova): TRACE: _launcher.wait() (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/service.py", line 107, in wait (nova): TRACE: service.wait() (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/greenthread.py", line 166, in wait (nova): TRACE: return self._exit_event.wait() (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/event.py", line 116, in wait (nova): TRACE: return hubs.get_hub().switch() (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/hubs/hub.py", line 177, in switch (nova): TRACE: return self.greenlet.switch() (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/greenthread.py", line 192, in main (nova): TRACE: result = function(args, *kwargs) (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/service.py", line 77, in run_server (nova): TRACE: server.start() (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/service.py", line 137, in start (nova): TRACE: self.manager.init_host() (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 159, in init_host (nova): TRACE: instances = self.db.instance_get_all_by_host(context, self.host) (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/db/api.py", line 536, in instance_get_all_by_host (nova): TRACE: return IMPL.instance_get_all_by_host(context, host) (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/db/sqlalchemy/api.py", line 101, in wrapper (nova): TRACE: return f(args, *kwargs) (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/db/sqlalchemy/api.py", line 1392, in instance_get_all_by_host (nova): TRACE: session = get_session() (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/db/sqlalchemy/session.py", line 53, in get_session (nova): TRACE: _ENGINE = get_engine() (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/db/sqlalchemy/session.py", line 87, in get_engine (nova): TRACE: creator = eventlet.db_pool.ConnectionPool(MySQLdb, *pool_args) (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/db_pool.py", line 50, in __init__ (nova): TRACE: order_as_stack=True) (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/pools.py", line 108, in __init__ (nova): TRACE: self.free_items.append(self.create()) (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/db_pool.py", line 246, in create (nova): TRACE: *self._kwargs) (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/db_pool.py", line 253, in connect ... (more)