[chef] Re: reindex and timeout (was: Reindexing and chef-client)

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, February 24, 2012 at 12:40 PM, KC Braunschweig wrote:

> This reminded me of a problem I had. Wondering if it is common. I had
> to do an index rebuild and the knife command kept timing out because
> the rebuild takes a while. I didn't see a way to tell knife to use a
> longer timeout to wait for the response.
> Is there a way?
> Should this not happen?
> Should this be implemented as an async call instead?

If it was async, there's a greater chance it would fail without you knowing 
about it. I could see the value in creating some sort of background job 
document and polling for the status, but that's a pretty large leap in 
complexity.

If you want to increase your timeout, the setting is `rest_timeout` which 
defaults to 300s.

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Dan DeLeo