Doesn't seem to retry Timeout::Error

[barmstrong]

I'm using extend Resque::Plugins::ExponentialBackoff with the default retry schedule and it works great normally, but it seems like Timeout::Error is not being retried. In other words, I'm quite sure the service was up during one of the 6 attempts over the 6 hour time window. And when I manually retry the job from the failed job queue, it works right away.

I remember there was some issues back in the day with ruby where certain exceptions would subclass Error instead of Exception or something along those lines. But it seems like that is not a problem here:

irb(main):003:0> Timeout::Error.ancestors
=> [Timeout::Error, RuntimeError, StandardError, Exception, ActiveSupport::Dependencies::Blamable, Object, AttrEncrypted::InstanceMethods, ActiveSupport::Dependencies::Loadable, PP::ObjectMixin, Mongoid::Extensions::Object, Moped::BSON::Extensions::Object, Origin::Extensions::Object, JSON::Ext::Generator::GeneratorMethods::Object, Kernel, BasicObject]
irb(main):004:0>

Can you think of any reason Timeout::Error wouldn't be getting retried? Thanks!

[barmstrong]

I guess same question on Resque::TermException. Shouldn't it be retrying on these also? Thanks!

[tinou-okl]

I'm also experiencing this issue. When my job get s a timeout exception it is not retried and put in the failed queue.

[courtsimas]

+1

[courtsimas]

anyone figured this out? I tried standarderror, i tried being explicit with AWS::S3::Errors::RequestTimeout.... no luck.

[realadeel]

+1 still seeing this....

[lantins]

Can anyone (other then @barmstrong) provide some more details:

• Ruby version
• Exception you seen

Bonus points if you provide a pull request with a test case! (even without a fix)

[realadeel]

Ruby 2.0.0
For me it's any raising of Timeout::Error. I literally test in my code with "raise Timeout::Error" to try to manually duplicate the problem and it does duplicate.
In the meantime I'm doing retry manually for this exception, and leaving other retrying as-is.
My worker class starts like this:

class SyncChannel
@Queue = :high
extend Resque::Plugins::Retry
@retry_limit = 3
@retry_delay = 60

[jzaleski]

@Proletarian I vaguely recall dealing w/ this exact issue at a previous company. But I can't remember the fix for the life of me. Let me reach out to them tomorrow and see if anyone can locate what we did to fix it.