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Bulk Import 50MB JSON Files Error - Timeout and Solutions

TLDR madhweep encounters an error while bulk importing JSON files. Kishore Nallan provided help, but the issue persists. Jason intervenes and after troubleshooting, they concluded the cluster had run out of memory causing the issue. The problem was resolved by using a cluster with sufficient memory. Daniel also experienced a similar issue, resolved by increasing the timeout.

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Nov 19, 2021 (24 months ago)

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madhweep

11:09 AM

Trying to bulk import 50mb json files and get this error. Any suggestions on how to fix?

Request #1637320016147: Request to Node 0 failed due to "undefined Too many properties to enumerate"

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Kishore Nallan

11:09 AM

👋 Please see this: https://github.com/typesense/typesense-js/issues/81

11:11

Kishore Nallan

11:11 AM

We are looking to address this. For now, if you just batched up the imports into smaller chunks, it will work. Or just use curl to import the full file. Typesense can support imports of several GBs of file directly, so this is just a JS client limitation at the moment.

madhweep

11:28 AM

Kishore Nallan how do I use curl to import the file? I’m using typesense cloud. Is there an example

Kishore Nallan

11:41 AM

curl -H "X-TYPESENSE-API-KEY: ${TYPESENSE_API_KEY}" -X POST --data-binary @/path/to/file.jsonl ""

The file needs to be in JSONL. Described here: https://typesense.org/docs/0.21.0/api/documents.html#import-a-jsonl-file

madhweep

12:23 PM

curl -H "X-TYPESENSE-API-KEY: ${api key}" -X POST --data-binary @./path/to/file.jsonl "https://{host name}.a1.typesense.net/collections/products/documents/import"

12:23

madhweep

12:23 PM

Getting a failed to connect to {host name} operation time out error

Kishore Nallan

01:58 PM

As soon as you run it or after some time?

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Jason

03:28 PM

madhweep could you try using v1.0.3-2 of typesense-js? I fixed a similar issue and I’m curious if that fix works in your case as well.

03:28

Jason

03:28 PM

Also for large datasets, you want to make sure you set connection timeout to a large value

madhweep

05:05 PM

Kishore Nallan it runs for like 15-20 mins and then times out . Jason just tried it and it didn’t fix it. Looks like this is a js dependency Issue, I can use python for the bulk upload then

Jason

05:34 PM

Hmm it times out for 50MB with curl? Could you share the exact curl command you’re using and the collection schema?

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Daniel

05:49 PM

The same happened to me with the Python library, so I used curl and it got the job done

Jason

05:52 PM

Madhweep - I wonder if you're running out of RAM that's causing the timeout. Because usually I've seen timeouts happen on the client-side (by default it's set to just 2s IIRC), so you'd have to increase that to like say 10 minutes...

05:52

Jason

05:52 PM

Daniel - did it still timeout after you increased the client-side timeout?

Daniel

06:04 PM

Yeah

06:05

Daniel

06:05 PM

It's not an issue though (at least for me), I don't think most people are going to add millions of docs

Jason

06:05 PM

If you have a script and a dataset you can share (you can email it to [email protected]) that replicates the issue, I can take a closer look

06:07

Jason

06:07 PM

I'm mainly curious because just yesterday I was able to index 1.1M docs with the script below, that reads from a 1GB JSONL file and inserts 500K docs at a time into Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-airbnb-geosearch/blob/bcf50950d6d74d5d62aac3ed139dc74981b9ff88/scripts/index_data.js

So I'm wondering what's happening...

11:15

Jason

11:15 PM

Summarizing what we found via DM - the cluster had run out of memory, which is what was causing the timeouts. Indexing it on a cluster with sufficient memory solved the issue

Nov 20, 2021 (24 months ago)

Daniel

12:36 PM

For me it was a low timeout, after I added more it ran without issues, the py script

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