Please wait dialog in BM when tasks are crashing

[Ageless]

I noticed the other day when testing work for Hydrogen@Home that when the task was crashing, or about to crash, that I would get a pop-up dialog "Please wait: reconnecting to client" (or similar words).

As soon as the connection was made again, the task would show up as crashed.

I noticed this both in the Tasks tab and the Messages tab in BOINC Manager. It didn't interfere much with the working of the client or BOINC Manager, but was slightly disconcerting anyway.

[romw]

Looks like the timeout needs to be increased.

[charlief]

It sounds to me that it is working exactly as intended. For some reason, the crashing application caused the Core Client to delay responding to the manger's RPC. If we lengthened the timeout, then the user would have just seen a frozen BOINC Manager for that duration. The Please Wait dialog allows the user to cancel out if desired, in addition to giving the user a bit more feedback.

We want the timeout to be set long enough so the user rarely sees the dialog when things are working normally, but short enough so the dialog is shown when there is an abnormal delay. That is exactly what happened here.