I can certainly experiment with that. Cheers,
E. -- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com On 10/7/17, 7:41 AM, "general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com on behalf of Geert Josten" <general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com on behalf of geert.jos...@marklogic.com> wrote: Hi Eliot, I heard the other day that it should be possible to capture such timeouts with a try catch within the code itself. That gives an extra 10 seconds delay which might be sufficient to send out an alert email, or raise some other flag. After those few extra seconds, the timeout gets rethrown if you don¹t finish in time.. Might be worth investigating? Cheers, Geert On 10/7/17, 12:10 AM, "general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com on behalf of Eliot Kimber" <general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com on behalf of ekim...@contrext.com> wrote: >Using current ML 9: > >I¹ve set up a little client-server application where the client spawns a >large number of tasks on a remote cluster. Each remote task reports its >status back to the client via HTTP. > >However, if one of the tasks times out in the Task Server there¹s no way >for it to report its own failure and there doesn¹t seem to be anything >else other than the task server that can detect the failure and report it. > >Is there any built-in mechanism by which a task time limit exceeded >failure can be detected in a way that would allow me to the report back >to the calling client? For example, something that gets the task¹s >current call stack at the time of failure, which would give me the info I >need to report back to the calling client. > >Unfortunately, the code I¹m running in these tasks is pre-existing >processing that I¹m building this remote processing around so I can¹t >easily do something like provide a heartbeat signal for each running task >that a separate process could poll in order to detect terminated >processes, although I¹m guessing that¹s the most likely solution now that >I think about it. > >I do report to the client when each task starts so I guess I could >presume that if a task hasn¹t finished some time after the configured max >time limit that it is presumed to have failed. > >Thanks, > >Eliot >-- >Eliot Kimber >http://contrext.com > > > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >General@developer.marklogic.com >Manage your subscription at: >http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com Manage your subscription at: http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com Manage your subscription at: http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
