hacks to kind cluster to allow really big dbs

hack_kindly.patch

diff --git a/dist/images/ovndb-raft-functions.sh b/dist/images/ovndb-raft-functions.sh
index ceb523cfe..99ed10d37 100644
--- a/dist/images/ovndb-raft-functions.sh
+++ b/dist/images/ovndb-raft-functions.sh
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ check_and_apply_ovnkube_db_ep() {
     # times and then give up.

     for ip in ${ips[@]}; do
-      wait_for_event attempts=10 check_ovnkube_db_ep ${ip} ${port}
+      echo wait_for_event attempts=9999999 check_ovnkube_db_ep ${ip} ${port}
+      wait_for_event attempts=9999999 check_ovnkube_db_ep ${ip} ${port}
     done
     set_ovnkube_db_ep ${ips[@]}
   else
diff --git a/dist/images/ovnkube.sh b/dist/images/ovnkube.sh
index 2ea4430b9..46a70b1c6 100755
--- a/dist/images/ovnkube.sh
+++ b/dist/images/ovnkube.sh
@@ -471,7 +471,10 @@ check_health() {
     fi
   fi

-  return 1
+  echo check_health will lie  about health of ${1}
+  return 0
+
+  # return 1
 }

 display_file() {
@@ -717,7 +720,8 @@ nb-ovsdb() {
     ${OVNCTL_PATH} run_nb_ovsdb --no-monitor \
     --ovn-nb-log="${ovn_loglevel_nb}" &

-  wait_for_event attempts=3 process_ready ovnnb_db
+  echo wait_for_event attempts=99999999 process_ready ovnnb_db
+  wait_for_event attempts=99999999 process_ready ovnnb_db
   echo "=============== nb-ovsdb ========== RUNNING"

   # setting northd probe interval
@@ -755,7 +759,8 @@ sb-ovsdb() {
     ${OVNCTL_PATH} run_sb_ovsdb --no-monitor \
     --ovn-sb-log="${ovn_loglevel_sb}" &

-  wait_for_event attempts=3 process_ready ovnsb_db
+  echo wait_for_event attempts=989898989 process_ready ovnsb_db
+  wait_for_event attempts=989898989 process_ready ovnsb_db
   echo "=============== sb-ovsdb ========== RUNNING"

   [[ "yes" == ${OVN_SSL_ENABLE} ]] && {
@@ -765,7 +770,8 @@ sb-ovsdb() {
   ovn-sbctl --inactivity-probe=0 set-connection p${transport}:${ovn_sb_port}:$(bracketify ${ovn_db_host})

   # create the ovnkube-db endpoints
-  wait_for_event attempts=10 check_ovnkube_db_ep ${ovn_db_host} ${ovn_nb_port}
+  echo wait_for_event attempts=9999999 check_ovnkube_db_ep ${ovn_db_host} ${ovn_nb_port}
+  wait_for_event attempts=9999999 check_ovnkube_db_ep ${ovn_db_host} ${ovn_nb_port}
   set_ovnkube_db_ep ${ovn_db_host}
   if memory_trim_on_compaction_supported "sbdb"
   then
@@ -793,10 +799,10 @@ ovn-dbchecker() {

   # wait for nb-ovsdb and sb-ovsdb to start
   echo "=============== ovn-dbchecker (wait for nb-ovsdb) ========== OVNKUBE_DB"
-  wait_for_event attempts=15 process_ready ovnnb_db
+  wait_for_event attempts=999999159 process_ready ovnnb_db

   echo "=============== ovn-dbchecker (wait for sb-ovsdb) ========== OVNKUBE_DB"
-  wait_for_event attempts=15 process_ready ovnsb_db
+  wait_for_event attempts=999999915 process_ready ovnsb_db

   local ovn_db_ssl_opts=""
   [[ "yes" == ${OVN_SSL_ENABLE} ]] && {
@@ -824,7 +830,8 @@ ovn-dbchecker() {
     --logfile /var/log/ovn-kubernetes/ovn-dbchecker.log &

   echo "=============== ovn-dbchecker ========== running"
-  wait_for_event attempts=3 process_ready ovn-dbchecker
+  echo wait_for_event attempts=999999 process_ready ovn-dbchecker
+  wait_for_event attempts=9999999 process_ready ovn-dbchecker

   process_healthy ovn-dbchecker
   exit 11
@@ -864,7 +871,7 @@ run-ovn-northd() {
     --ovn-northd-log="${ovn_loglevel_northd}" \
     ${ovn_northd_opts}

-  wait_for_event attempts=3 process_ready ovn-northd
+  wait_for_event attempts=9999993 process_ready ovn-northd
   echo "=============== run_ovn_northd ========== RUNNING"

   tail --follow=name ${OVN_LOGDIR}/ovn-northd.log &
@@ -885,7 +892,8 @@ ovn-master() {
   echo "ovn_nbdb ${ovn_nbdb}   ovn_sbdb ${ovn_sbdb}"

   # wait for northd to start
-  wait_for_event process_ready ovn-northd
+  echo wait_for_event attempts=9999993 process_ready ovn-northd
+  wait_for_event attempts=9999993 process_ready ovn-northd

   # wait for ovs-servers to start since ovn-master sets some fields in OVS DB
   echo "=============== ovn-master - (wait for ovs)"
@@ -1012,7 +1020,8 @@ ovn-master() {
     --host-network-namespace ${ovn_host_network_namespace} &

   echo "=============== ovn-master ========== running"
-  wait_for_event attempts=3 process_ready ovnkube-master
+  echo wait_for_event attempts=9999999 process_ready ovnkube-master
+  wait_for_event attempts=9999999 process_ready ovnkube-master

   process_healthy ovnkube-master
   exit 9
@@ -1050,7 +1059,8 @@ ovn-controller() {
     --ovn-controller-log="${ovn_loglevel_controller}" \
     ${ovn_controller_opts}

-  wait_for_event attempts=3 process_ready ovn-controller
+  echo wait_for_event attempts=999999 process_ready ovn-controller
+  wait_for_event attempts=999999 process_ready ovn-controller
   echo "=============== ovn-controller ========== running"

   tail --follow=name ${OVN_LOGDIR}/ovn-controller.log &
@@ -1078,7 +1088,8 @@ ovn-node() {

   if [[ ${ovnkube_node_mode} != "dpu-host" ]]; then
     echo "=============== ovn-node - (ovn-node  wait for ovn-controller.pid)"
-    wait_for_event process_ready ovn-controller
+    echo wait_for_event attempts=999999 process_ready ovn-controller
+    wait_for_event attempts=999999 process_ready ovn-controller
   fi

   ovn_routable_mtu_flag=
@@ -1285,7 +1296,8 @@ ovn-node() {
     --host-network-namespace ${ovn_host_network_namespace} \
      ${ovnkube_node_mgmt_port_netdev_flag} &

-  wait_for_event attempts=3 process_ready ovnkube
+  echo wait_for_event attempts=9999993 process_ready ovnkube
+  wait_for_event attempts=99999993 process_ready ovnkube
   if [[ ${ovnkube_node_mode} != "dpu" ]]; then
     setup_cni
   fi
@@ -1304,6 +1316,8 @@ cleanup-ovn-node() {
   echo "=============== time: $(date +%d-%m-%H:%M:%S:%N) cleanup-ovn-node - (wait for ovn-controller to exit)"
   retries=0
   while [[ ${retries} -lt 80 ]]; do
+    echo wait_for_event attempts=9999993 process_ready ovnkube
+    wait_for_event attempts=99999993 process_ready ovnkube
     process_ready ovn-controller
     if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
       break