Websocket connection timeout sporadic blocking?

krishna_mfjones
Hi Everyone

[Python-client]

I noticed one thing when there is a connection timeout the the whole web-socket thread seems to block my other threads. I have started the websocket with on_connect ->threaded= True. Everything goes fine and I don't block the ticks. I just copy the data onto the queue. When there is a drop in the connection , there seems to be a timeout and after a while the websocket resumes and everything is fine. During this timeout detection phase ( default is 30s) my whole program just stops ( Does not happen always , only for certain network conditions - not able to tell which network issue causes a timeout). Has anyone faced a similar issue? Is the blocking happening from some lower layer?

To mitigate this I am thinking of making the timeout as maybe 5 or 10s

Let me know your thoughts

Thanks
  • rakeshr
    I noticed one thing when there is a connection timeout the whole web-socket thread seems to block my other threads.
    By other thread, you mean another ticker thread from the main thread, right? In that, if the main thread is blocked/disconnected, other thread originated from the main thread will be disconnected too.
    Can you paste the complete error stack trace? That should give more info.
  • krishna_mfjones
    krishna_mfjones edited September 2021
    Nope , not another ticker thread. Its just my main program where I am doing some calculation. There is no error or anything as such. Its just that during the reconnection phase my main program is getting blocked for those 30s.

    Eg:

    # call backs are assigned


    Main program starts
    ..
    ..
    kws.connect(threaded =True)
    ..
    ..
    while(some_condition): # have a loop for doing some periodic calculations
    ..
    ..[ blocking happens inside here during reconnection/timeout]
    ..
    ..
    end of while loop
    ..
    kws.unsubscribe()
    kws.close()


    After the timeout the while loop resumes. and the websocket in the background tries to establish a reconnection
    I even tested by not doing anything inside the while loop -> just a print statement. still it gets blocked

    any idea what can cause such a thing
  • rakeshr
    Its just my main program where I am doing some calculation
    This is not recommended. This thread explains more.
    There is no error or anything as such.
    Have you added on_error callback? This would throw the required error message when the connection is closed.
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