If the queue is deadlocked in the way I suspect, it will remain so regardless of whether your app accesses it from a backend or frontend instance.
I'll respond in this thread. Nick Verne On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Christian Foster Howes <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick, > > thanks for the info! 2 follow-on questions: > - do you expect that i can read the queue from a front-end instance? > - where do i sign-up to be notified that a fix is in place? (is there a > bug number i can follow?) > > thanks so much for the help, and the great product! > > christian > > > On 2/27/12 15:22 , Nicholas Verne wrote: >> >> Christian, >> >> Your problem sounds like an instance of a rare condition in our >> backends that can cause deadlock in a pull queue. We are working on a >> fix that should be pushed out in the next few days. If you're prepared >> to wait a couple more days, you may be able to consume your remaining >> tasks without needing to purge the queue. Until then, I advise against >> adding new tasks to the queue. >> >> Nick Verne >> >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:34 AM, c h<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a pull queue that i have been getting: >>> >>> File >>> >>> "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/taskqueue/taskqueue.py", >>> line 1423, in lease_tasks >>> raise self.__TranslateError(e.application_error, e.error_detail) >>> TransientError >>> >>> >>> for the past day. to put it in perspective - i had a problem with the >>> processing of tasks and shut off my consumer of this queue for a few days >>> to >>> fix some stuff, i turned the consumer back on yesterday and have not been >>> able to read a task since. is this because my pull queue has gotten >>> quite >>> large (over 6gb, and the count is unable to be displayed in the console, >>> probably several million items)? is there anything i can do to recover, >>> or >>> do i just need to purge the queue and start over? (given the data that >>> is >>> in the queue i would much prefer to recover) >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> christian >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Google App Engine" group. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/NGrhdc9xAkIJ. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
