Yes, Steve this is good suggestion and standard practice but there was a real issue that day that lasted for hours so these loops timed out.
PK On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:09 AM, stevep <prosse...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had some TransientError issues when using queues in iterative loops. The > fix (workaround) that has eliminated the issue was to nest the iterative > queue command inside a try/except. If there is a transient error, the handler > does one time.sleep(0.1) command, and retries. If the error re-occurs, then > the g.t. one sleep cycle error handling escalates. (And yes, I really, really > hated to do burn up 100 cpu millis, but was desperate. Since TEs were > infrequent, the overall resource waste proved de minimus.) To date this has > fixed my transient errors. Never have had a TE outside of such loops. As with > everything, YMMV. HTH -stevep > > On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:37:31 AM UTC-8, Scott Gress wrote: > Hi all, > > At the moment I'm getting TransientError exceptions whenever I try to add a > task to a queue in my Python app, using code like: > > q = Queue('default') > q.add(Task(url=url, countdown=countdown)) > > It appears to be happening with every queue, every time--retrying doesn't > help. Has been going on for at least 30 minutes, and blocking important > activity on my site. I haven't done any deployments in the last 4 days; it > just started happening on its own. > > This is happening in both my production app, "premium-prod-hr" and my staging > app "premium-test-hr" on site www.craftlaunch.com. > > Anybody else seeing this? Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Scott > > > > -- > 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/-/Q0N7sJM88hIJ. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.