LAION-AI / LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
Potential Bottleneck: Looks like no tasks were found
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Description
I'm facing from time to time the problem, that when I'm using "I'm feeling lucky" option, that after completing my task I get the following screen:

This screen often disappears after 1-2s, and it looks like it has to pull a task, but this task wasn't ready then.
Today (2023-02-07) I'm facing this situation much more than in the past days. It goes so far that sometimes even this message appears directly after clicking on "I'm feeling lucky". I never faced this case before today.
It is a bit of an annoying problem, but I can live with it if it for the moment helps the team. However, I feel that the higher load probably brings a bottleneck to light, which only becomes particularly noticeable when it does. So, I recommend the team to analyze/monitor when and how often this occurs. Otherwise, it could most likely lead to unpleasant situations when the load is even higher.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reproducing the “I'm feeling lucky” flow and tracing when the “no tasks were found” screen appears; then inspect task retrieval timing and load behavior. Done should include identifying the bottleneck and adding monitoring or a verified fix for the intermittent empty-task result.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, observability, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100