davedash/elasticutils — comment on commit 387a56a3c44676db898dcaa4216a797be6ee0a35
File: elasticutils/tasks.py line 28
By erikrose:

It *was* intermittant, and it was probably due to my machine swapping, but still, flushing an indeterminate (and always growing, in the case of a full reindex) amount of data to disk could conceivably exceed any reasonable timeout.