Hey John, +1 on experiencing that issue this morning. Let me know if there's any way I can help.
dpc On Feb 22, 10:51 am, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: > A number of developers have reported abandoned connection issues on the > Streaming API starting, perhaps, about two weeks ago. The symptoms include a > long-established TCP connection to stream.twitter.com going quiet, with the > connection mysteriously held open for perhaps hours afterward. After sorting > through a lot of conflicting data and chasing a few wild geese, I finally > reproduced this problem at Feb 22 15:55 UTC (7:55am PST). I'd imagine that a > number of streams were abandoned at this time. If you had a correlative > experience within a minute or so of 15:55 UTC, please respond to this > message. > > We currently suspect an infrequent hardware load balancer issue, perhaps > related to a recent configuration change. The appearance is that the load > balancer is, for whatever reason, dropping valid connections, closing the > connection to the Streaming API servers, but not sending a TCP FIN or TCP > RST to the client. This is bad. We're treating this as a critical production > issue and working through the details with network operations. I'll follow > up as we learn more. > > -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki > Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
