Best Strategy on Runs Waiting for Thread Locks

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Hey All!

I’m devising a strategy to prevent runs from just failing when there is another run in progress and wanted to see what others are doing along these same lines. Here is a chunk of code I use to have my run wait until it has an opening:

# Function to check if there is an active run
def check_active_run(thread_id):
    try:
        # Fetch runs for the thread and check their status
        active_runs = client.beta.threads.runs.list(thread_id=thread_id)
        for run in active_runs.data:
            if run.status in ["in_progress", "queued"]:
                return True
        return False
    except OpenAIError as e:
        print(f"Failed to check runs: {str(e)}")
        return False

# Wait until there is no active run
while check_active_run(thread.id):
    print("Waiting for the existing run to complete...")
    time.sleep(10)  # Wait for 10 seconds before checking again

# Once no active runs are detected, proceed to create a new run
try:
    print("Creating a new run...")
    stream_run = client.beta.threads.runs.create(
        thread_id=thread.id,
        assistant_id=assistant.id,
        stream=True
    )

Thoughts?

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Hey there!

Welcome to the pain point of using Python :rofl:.

I usually resolve this through multithreading, but python isn’t very good at that. It can handle async tasks good enough though.

I guess here, my question is why wait for the active runs to finish (with sleep), when you could have a queue? It almost looks like you already have one.

For reference, Queues are a special kind of list that’s FIFO, or first in, first out. Easiest way to think about them is like the turn list in turn-based RPGs.

What you could do is essentially run whatever is at the front of the list. When it returns that it’s no longer in progress, it pops out of the queue and the next item in that list can begin running. No wait time needed!

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Hey @Macha,

Thanks for the response. I’ll give queues a try and see what happens. :+1:

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