Hi, I've been having a lot of crazy reliability is...
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Tadej Svetina
02/09/2023, 9:31 AMHi, I've been having a lot of crazy reliability issues with Prefect lately. As soon as I ran >5 flows on an agent, it starts crashing. The flows are not doing much, polling an API and waiting in between (min 20s intervals) - and it's all using ConcurrentTaskRunner, all functions are async. Why is this happening? Any configuration I can tweak to make this run better? If not, I'll have to move off Prefect, reliability here really is the most important feature
Tadej Svetina
02/09/2023, 9:34 AMI'm running the agent on a very small server, and the CPU usage is consistently low (<5%). Issue might be with memory? How much memory does each new flow occupy?
Tadej Svetina
02/09/2023, 9:37 AMAlso, UI really feels buggy: there's a lot of inconsistency between the state of the Flow show in FLow runs and the actual state (that I can see when I go to the Flow run's page), this persists even across refreshes.
And what I also notice frequently is that if an agent crashes before picking up a flow (when a Flow is pending), the flow will not be picked up by the agent when it comes back online, unless I manually cancel it and then retry.
Tadej Svetina
02/09/2023, 11:22 AMAnother thing: on a running agent, some sub flows will just crash silently - they will still show up as running, but logs will stop appearing. such runs are then also really hard to cancel