I usually don't usually catch all errors because it hides diagnostic
info ... but since I can't limit the retries, i usually get the error
twice ...

On Feb 21, 11:20 am, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you don't want a task to retry, catch any errors and simply return
> normally as if the task completed.
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> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:15 PM, James Gilliam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > one other task queue question ...
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> > i have ...
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> >  retry_parameters:
> >    task_retry_limit: 1
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> > is there any way i can say no retries?
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> > a while back, i tried task_retry_limit: 0 but didn't work
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> > thanks
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> > On Feb 21, 10:56 am, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Why not leave the rate at 1/s, but set max_concurrent_requests to 1 as
> > > Nick suggested?
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> > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:56, James Gilliam <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > Yes ... I saw the 5 per sec in the admin ...
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> > > > Also, I just realized why I think gae created so many instances when i
> > > > had the queue at 1/s ... I had assumed the tasks would take much less
> > > > than a second (which was true at the beginning); but as the number of
> > > > entity writes continued, the latency for the writes got larger and
> > > > eventually took longer than a second ... at which point gae started
> > > > new instances to keep up with the 1 sec rate ... i had assumed it
> > > > would not consider starting a new task until the previous one in the
> > > > queue finished -- this appears to not be the semantics
>
> > > > My solution is to slow down the tasks even further ... to say 15 /
> > > > min ... so that new instances will not be created ...
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> > > > On Feb 19, 12:21 pm, Nicholas Verne <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >> James,
>
> > > >> The misreporting of number of tasks in a queue is a known bug that
> > > >> we're working on.  It causes undue alarm for our users.
>
> > > >> How do you know that GAE changed the target rate to 5 / sec ? Did you
> > > >> observe this in the admin console?
>
> > > >> The queue's rate is the rate at which tasks are dispatched to your
> > > >> app. If your queue is set to run 1 / sec and your task latency is
> > > >> longer than 1 second, you should expect to have more instances spin
> > > >> up.
>
> > > >> If you wish to prevent more than one task running at a time, set your
> > > >> queue's max_concurrent_requests to 1.
>
> > > >> Nick Verne
>
> > > >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:35 AM, James Gilliam <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > >> > I am using task queue in python.
>
> > > >> > I added 10,000 tasks for a queue set to run at 1/sec and a bucket of
> > > >> > 1 ... they were short tasks and I didn't want them to run
> > > >> > immediately ... I didn't even want them to run multiples per second
> > > >> > even though the latency was low ... it was ok if it took hours as I
> > > >> > knew it would at 1/sec.  I figured it would create a second instance
> > > >> > as the site was continuing to run ... but I was pretty surprised
> > with
> > > >> > what actually happen.
>
> > > >> > At first the queue started processing fine ... approx 60 tasks
> > running
> > > >> > per minute ...
>
> > > >> > Then GAE decided to run them at a faster rate, change the target
> > rate
> > > >> > to 5 / sec and created lots of new instances ...
>
> > > >> > When there were about 3000 tasks left ... GAE went crazy and said
> > > >> > there were nearly 200,000 tasks in the queue ...
>
> > > >> > As far as I could tell, the number of tasks being reported was just
> > an
> > > >> > anomaly ... but it was alarming given that GAE was creating
> > instances
> > > >> > like crazy.
>
> > > >> > The tasks would add new records (sometimes) and I noticed that the
> > > >> > latency of these tasks increased the longer the tasks ran.  At first
> > > >> > just 200ms ... by the end nearly 1400 ms.
>
> > > >> > So --
>
> > > >> > 1. The most important question -- Why did GAE not respect my desire
> > to
> > > >> > run the queue at 1 / sec ?  Is there a way I can stop GAE from
> > > >> > overriding my wishes?
>
> > > >> > 2. Was the latency increasing because the records being added were
> > > >> > slowing new records from being added?
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> > > >> > 3. The invalid number of tasks seems like a harmless bug since new
> > > >> > phantom tasks were not actually created (as far as I know).
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