[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-2218) gen_server timeout has unhelpful error message

["Eli Stevens (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Eli Stevens commented on COUCHDB-2218:
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This commit was added to address the underlying issue:

https://github.com/apache/couchdb/commit/d81619033206f09a774072dc2f84f7f275b12496

Can progress be made when this occurs?  IOW, is it possible for retrying to eventually work through task and allow the HTTP API call to succeed?

> gen_server timeout has unhelpful error message
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-2218
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2218
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: JavaScript View Server
>            Reporter: Eli Stevens
>
> It's not clear if this error is something that's actionable by the user or not:
> https://gist.github.com/wickedgrey/d2c87e6ee1e7c695abae
> It sounds like there's a bug ("sloppy") here, but I'm not certain.
> From IRC discussion:
> 4:40 PM rnewson: oh that's annoying
> 4:40 PM Wohali: gen_server timeout
> 4:40 PM rnewson: yeah, do we do a default timeout there for a view build? that's sloppy
> 4:40 PM Wohali: i bet, as it's not an os_process timeout
> 4:41 PM Wohali: which is what i would have expected to see
> 4:42 PM rnewson:
> run(Pid, IdxState) ->
>    gen_server:call(Pid, {update, IdxState}).
> 4:42 PM wickedgrey: the machine was in the middle of a test run at the time, which processes a lot of data under somewhat high load (roughly O(num_cores)), but we do this regularly and don't usually see this
> 4:42 PM rnewson:
> couch_index_updater
> ah, this one;
> update(Mod, State) ->
>    update(nil, Mod, State).



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