Sometimes API calls can run for a long time. We don't want to let them run arbitrarily long, because that is potentially forever, consuming server resources uselessly. My current understanding of what happens in this case is:
- nginx has a timeout, I don't know what it is. If a rails call takes longer than that, then I'm not sure what it does - does nginx have a way to abort the rails call, or does rails keep trying to complete the call even though nginx has already delivered a failing HTTP response to the client?
- rails has its own timeout, I don't know what it is.
I think that ideally the nginx timeout is the same as the rails timeout. Perhaps this is already the case - but I would be more relaxed if someone could check this for me.
And if I were to learn what the timeout is, I could put it in the API documentation and/or tell our alpha testers what it is, so I would like to request this as well.
Thanks
Sometimes API calls can run for a long time. We don't want to let them run arbitrarily long, because that is potentially forever, consuming server resources uselessly. My current understanding of what happens in this case is:
I think that ideally the nginx timeout is the same as the rails timeout. Perhaps this is already the case - but I would be more relaxed if someone could check this for me.
And if I were to learn what the timeout is, I could put it in the API documentation and/or tell our alpha testers what it is, so I would like to request this as well.
Thanks