Thanks, I will give rack-timeout a try. So what it seems like is that the routing mesh is not as sophisticated as Heroku leads on?
On Feb 16, 11:45 am, Neil Middleton <[email protected]> wrote: > The dyno is still running the long request, successfully. It's only the > routing mesh that's returned the timeout error back to the user. Therefore, > the dynos still in your 'grid' and ready for new requests. > > I blogged about something very similar a couple of weeks > back:http://neilmiddleton.com/avoiding-zombie-dynos-with-heroku > > Neil Middletonhttp://about.me/neilmiddleton > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, 16 February 2011 at 16:42, Tim W wrote: > > The Heroku website claims: > > >http://heroku.com/how/dyno_grid_last#3 > > "If a dyno is unresponsive for any reason (user bugs, long requests, > > or high load), other requests will be routed around it." > > > In my experience, this does not seem to be the case. We have several > > admin features in our app that when requested with certain params, it > > can take longer then 30s to run. (I am working on ways to get these in > > check and in the background). When a user trips one of these long > > running requests, Heroku appears to queue additional requests to this > > dyno and those requests time out, even though there are plenty of > > other dynos available to handle that request. > > > Is the statement on the Heroku website true or false? It does not > > appear that Heroku actively monitors the dynos to see if they are busy > > with a long running request. Is there a better way to handle this > > situation? > > > Thanks.. > > -tim > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Heroku" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
