Question, around if a same user can run two differ...
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fancy-mouse-14245
03/22/2023, 6:37 AMQuestion, around if a same user can run two different flow at the same time?
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dry-beach-38304
03/22/2023, 6:39 AMsure — should work. Are you running into any specific issue with it? There is technically a possible race condition if a user runs the same flow very quickly more than once for the local metadata service since we use epoch for the run id so they can conflict but apart from that, I am not aware of any limitation.
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fancy-mouse-14245
03/22/2023, 6:39 AMyeah got,
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Metadata request (/flows/HelloFlow/runs/34/steps/hello) failed (code 500): {"message": "Internal server error"}fancy-mouse-14245
03/22/2023, 6:41 AMI was running HelloFlow but with different names.
HelloFlowHelloFlow1fancy-mouse-14245
03/22/2023, 6:41 AMOne flow ran perfectly. But the other flow didn’t after start step and threw the above error.
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dry-beach-38304
03/22/2023, 6:41 AMthat is indeed bizarre. It should work. If you re-ran the other flow after, does it work fine?
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fancy-mouse-14245
03/22/2023, 6:42 AMyeah it did.
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dry-beach-38304
03/22/2023, 6:42 AMhun — that’s weird. Anything in the server log of the metadata service (if you have access to it)?
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fancy-mouse-14245
03/22/2023, 6:43 AMNo i don’t have access to it. but let me see
fancy-mouse-14245
03/22/2023, 7:41 AMIts look like a one of issue. Didn’t saw anything on logs. But re-ran again simultaneously and it ran fine this time.
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dry-beach-38304
03/22/2023, 7:42 AMhun. Ok, that is very surprising. if it happens again, definitely let us know but glad it works 🙂
dry-beach-38304
03/22/2023, 7:42 AMthere may have been something else going on unrelated to running concurrently