Large number of URLFetch timeouts in last two weeks or so

[John Wheeler]

Hello,

Recently, for about the last two weeks or so, I have been receiving a larger than normal number of URLFetch timeouts when communicating with eBay's Trading API. I opened up a ticket with eBay thinking it was them, but they ran diagnostics and said that all the attempts I made to connect with their API have  succeeded. The eBay developer support person had me log my errors to their API calls and return the log to them with timestamps.

My application makes around 3600 eBay API calls per hour or one per second. About every two minutes, one times out. I have implemented retries and tried all sorts of timeout settings. I have even offloaded the calls to the taskqueue to get the 10 minute maximum deadline instead of the 1 minute regular deadline. It doesn't seem to matter.

This is not really affecting me because I have coded around it with the retries, but it really bothers me because I don't know why this started or is happening. Can anyone chime in with similar experience?

Thanks,

John

[Joshua Smith]

I'm seeing a larger than normal number of URLFetch timeouts to servers in our own data center, and to Google Analytics. I increased the "deadline" parameter in my urlfetch calls, and it had no effect.

It also started a couple weeks ago.

I'd say this is a GAE infrastructure issue.

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[John Wheeler]

Starred. Thanks

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:44 AM, ngriso <ngr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

Same for us too.
I filled an issue about this problem: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9325

I'm quite sure too it's GAE infra issue.

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[johnP]

Is there any updates on this issue?  I starred the issue, etc.  But then radio silence.  Are others still having this error condition?  I definitely am having lots of Deadline Errors on URL_Fetch.

[Ale]

Same here, lots of Deadline and Timeouts for almost a month now, I starred this issue and also reported this one 2 weeks ago: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9279&thanks=9279&ts=1367952477 and apparently they couldn't reproduce it but the problem is still here.

I know it's not a resource problem because it happens requesting different resources. I also had to code workarounds as John did, but still is really annoying, my app is not working as expected.

[John Wheeler]

Yes. Still having lots of errors. I am on the M/S Datastore too Ale. Google, please respond. Here is the issue that most folks have starred - Please acknowledge it:

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9325

John