Hi Abhijit,

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Abhijit Rao <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Our (python) app uses a pull queue to send work to dynamic backend
> instances. The backends sit in a tight loop polling for new work, 5 tasks
> at a time. As long as tasks are coming through, the backends periodically
> send 'keepalive' tasks to themselves via a push queue. Once the pull queue
> is exhausted, the backends spin down since they go idle and no keepalive
> tasks come through.
>
> Up until yesterday, this system was working fine, with the caveat that
> lease_tasks was throwing large numbers of TransientErrors, which we would
> catch and ignore.
>
> As of today, lease_tasks has started to fail silently - there are over 30k
> tasks in the pull queue with ETAs in the past, yet lease_tasks
> intermittently (but frequently) returns 0 results. It's happening often
> enough that there are insufficient keepalive tasks, meaning the backends
> die off even though there is tons of work to do.
>

Can you file a production issue with more detailed information(exact
occurrence of the issue instead of just 'today', app-ids, etc)?


>
> Anyone else seeing this? Did something change in the taskqueue
> implementation?
>
> Thanks,
> -Abhijit
>
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