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
> 
> 
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