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On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 5:13:35 PM UTC-4, John Wieczorek wrote: > > I am have been experiencing symptoms similar to those described here and > on the set of postings in the past > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/ETydrw1RJ6Y/jrx1zgyfCgAJ> > as > mentioned earlier in this thread. There are no reports of abnormal > operations, but my index has essentially become non-functional, with > timeouts when searching, or even deleting. I do use retry logic, but the > queries are failing persistently. The problems began at 2016-07-18T14:47:10Z > and have persisted since. > > Actually, I have just checked a production system that has been functional > until now that uses a different index from the one I was having trouble > with, and it too is timing out consistently for certain types of queries > that did not fail in the past. > > Any recommendations for how to find out what might be causing this, and > how to recover from this situation? > > On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 7:18:33 PM UTC+2, Nick (Cloud Platform > Support) wrote: >> >> Hey Ananthakrishnan, >> >> While we are aware this can happen, as it has for other users in the >> past, and we commit ourselves daily to maintaining the uptime of our >> systems, I'm glad to hear that it is not consistent, and you have a retry >> logic. This is indeed a best practice for distributed systems which need to >> have a higher level of fault-tolerance and defensive programming (using >> incremental backoff, etc.) than traditional single-system applications. >> >> Search API is a backend API service for App Engine, and it basically is a >> distributed system. Hence it can happen that one job is stuck, takes longer >> time to complete, and results in timeout. The exception only means that the >> particular request timed out. If you would like to experiment with >> different settings than a 10 second timeout, you can specify your >> desired timeout value >> <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/javadoc/com/google/appengine/api/search/SearchServiceConfig.Builder#setDeadline-java.lang.Double-> >> using >> the setDeadline() method during building of the SearchService. >> >> I hope this response has been helpful - let me know if you have any >> further questions and I'll be happy to assist. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Nick >> Cloud Platform Community Support >> >> On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 4:10:52 AM UTC-4, Ananthakrishnan >> Venkatasubramanian wrote: >>> >>> Hey Nick, >>> >>> Thanks for your kind reply. Will keep an eye on this thread for further >>> updates. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ananthakrishnan. >>> >>> On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 5:21:45 AM UTC+5:30, Nick (Cloud Platform >>> Support) wrote: >>>> >>>> Hey Ananthakrishnan, >>>> >>>> This appears to be some kind of internal error, and is not something >>>> you can necessarily prevent as a developer. It appears it has happened in >>>> the past >>>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/ETydrw1RJ6Y/jrx1zgyfCgAJ> >>>> >>>> and was related to an internal issue. I'll look into this and report back >>>> with any findings. >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> >>>> Nick >>>> Cloud Platform Community Support >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 10:51:18 AM UTC-4, Ananthakrishnan >>>> Venkatasubramanian wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> We have an application developed using Java running in google >>>>> appengine. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> When AppEngine's Search API is accessed for querying the records, >>>>> sporadically we get the following exception (not always). But when we try >>>>> again it is responding with results. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Stacktrace : >>>>> Class : class com.google.appengine.api.search.SearchExceptionMessage : >>>>> Failed to complete request in 9498ms >>>>> >>>>> at >>>>> com.google.appengine.api.search.IndexImpl$4.convertException(IndexImpl.java:355) >>>>> at com.google.appengine.api.utils.FutureWrapper.get(FutureWrapper.java:96) >>>>> at >>>>> com.google.appengine.api.search.FutureHelper.getInternal(FutureHelper.java:73) >>>>> at >>>>> com.google.appengine.api.search.FutureHelper.quietGet(FutureHelper.java:32) >>>>> at com.google.appengine.api.search.IndexImpl.search(IndexImpl.java:506) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Please let us know what is the issue behind this failure and what's >>>>> the remedy for it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in Advance. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Ananthakrishnan. >>>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/4d1d5d86-ce17-4457-8eef-8954621e30b8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
