context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)

[rthamrin]

I got an error context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers error before finish the request.

hey -n 1000 -q 2 -c 1 http://web1.com -A

summary:

  Total:	678.5024 secs

  Slowest:	15.0063 secs

  Fastest:	0.0005 secs

  Average:	0.1635 secs

  Requests/sec:	1.4738

  

  Total data:	168300 bytes

  Size/request:	168 bytes



Response time histogram:

  0.001 [1]	|

  1.501 [964]	|■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

  3.002 [6]	|

  4.502 [11]	|

  6.003 [8]	|

  7.503 [3]	|

  9.004 [2]	|

  10.505 [2]	|

  12.005 [0]	|

  13.506 [0]	|

  15.006 [1]	|





Latency distribution:

  10% in 0.0009 secs

  25% in 0.0011 secs

  50% in 0.0014 secs

  75% in 0.0016 secs

  90% in 0.0020 secs

  95% in 0.0031 secs

  99% in 5.0033 secs



Details (average, fastest, slowest):

  DNS+dialup:	0.0000 secs, 0.0005 secs, 15.0063 secs

  DNS-lookup:	0.0000 secs, 0.0000 secs, 0.0004 secs

  req write:	0.0000 secs, 0.0000 secs, 0.0005 secs

  resp wait:	0.1634 secs, 0.0005 secs, 15.0063 secs

  resp read:	0.0000 secs, 0.0000 secs, 0.0024 secs



Status code distribution:

  [200]	997 responses

  [504]	1 responses



Error distribution:

  [2]	Get "http://web1.com": context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)

[MarcoBeer]

I have the same problem ,Is it a bug？

[MarcoBeer]

I have the same problem ,Is it a bug？

[kdeggelman]

I believe this happens when the requests hit hey's timeout limit. From the docs you can specify a longer timeout with the -t option:

-t Timeout for each request in seconds. Default is 20, use 0 for infinite.