RAG reranker timeout in LlamaIndex Docker container under load

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Problem During load testing and in production traffic spikes, the RAG reranker component of LlamaIndex running inside a Docker container consistently throws timeout errors. The failure manifests as: 2024-09-28 12:34:56,789 ERROR reranker – RerankerTimeoutError: Reranking request timed out after 30.0 seconds Traceback (most recent call last): File “/app/llama_index/reranker.py”, line 212, in rank response = self.client.post(payload, … Read more

vLLM RAG reranker timeout during multi-GPU training

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Problem Description During multi‑GPU training of a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline that uses vLLM as the inference engine, the reranker stage consistently fails with a timeout error. The failure manifests as: vLLMEngineError: Reranker request timed out after 30000 ms Typical impact includes: RAG queries stall after the retrieval step, causing end‑to‑end latency spikes (> 30 s). Partial … Read more

ONNX Runtime RAG reranker timeout on premises server

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ONNX Runtime RAG Reranker Timeout on Premises Server Problem Description The RAG (Retrieval‑Augmented Generation) pipeline uses an ONNX Runtime reranker model to score retrieved documents before generation. In a private data‑center deployment with limited CPU cores and memory, the reranker frequently exceeds the configured inference timeout during peak query load, returning errors such as: Error: … Read more

ONNX Runtime RAG reranker timeout during inference serving

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Problem – RAG Reranker Timeout During Inference Serving The Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline is deployed on a production inference service that uses ONNX Runtime for low‑latency model execution. Under moderate request load the reranker stage fails to finish within the allocated time budget, causing the entire request to time‑out. Typical symptoms observed in logs: Ort::Exception: … Read more