On 30/05/2024 17:33, jspew...@iol.unh.edu wrote:
@@ -93,17 +102,39 @@ def __init__(
      def _start_application(self, get_privileged_command: Callable[[str], str] | 
None) -> None:
          """Starts a new interactive application based on the path to the app.
- This method is often overridden by subclasses as their process for
-        starting may look different.
+        This method is often overridden by subclasses as their process for 
starting may look
+        different. Initialization of the shell on the host can be retried up 
to 5 times. This is
+        done because some DPDK applications need slightly more time after 
exiting their script to
+        clean up EAL before others can start.
+
+        When the application is started we also bind a class for finalization 
to this instance of
+        the shell to ensure proper cleanup of the application.
Args:
              get_privileged_command: A function (but could be any callable) 
that produces
                  the version of the command with elevated privileges.
          """
+        self._finalizer = weakref.finalize(self, self._close)
+        max_retries = 5
+        self._ssh_channel.settimeout(1)

This timeout being too short is causing the testpmd shell (which is still loading in my case) to be spammed with testpmd instantiation commands. Unfortunately causing the next commands to fail too, as the testpmd shell has received a lot of garbage.

5 seconds of timeout seemed to have worked just fine in my case.

          start_command = f"{self.path} {self._app_args}"
          if get_privileged_command is not None:
              start_command = get_privileged_command(start_command)

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