[OSM-dev] Handling 500 errors

[Tom Hughes]

In message <a165b61a4f.tom at loxley.compton.nu>
          Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> In message <1188516625.28903.234.camel at localhost>
>           Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
> 
> > What do these errors actually _mean_?  Is the server just overloaded?
> > Can we teach the server to handle these a bit more gracefully so the
> > clients don't have to?
> 
> They usually mean that something threw an exception in the ruby code
> and nothing caught it. If I have details I can go look at the logs
> and try and figure out the cause.

It looks like the answer is they are causing by MySQL detecting
deadlocks and causing an exception to be thrown.

I will need to investigate further...

Tom

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