solr_dist can make the dmci worker to SIGKILL when extracting featureType from OPeNDAP link, if thredds or lustre is not responsing.

[magnarem]

If thredds.met.no or the NFS lustre Gateways, are having issues,
The part of the solr_dist (solrindexer) that tries to extract featureType from the netcdf-file using the OPeNDAP url, will hang, and then the gunicorn dmci app will timeout and get SIGKILLED, and the solr document processed will not be indexed.

A solution of this is to tell the netCDF4-python (netcdf c-library) to have a timeout short than gunicorn. (Default gunicorn is 30s).

The solution according to the netCDF4-python mailinglist, is to add a .dodsrcin the home of the dmci app.

So the solution will be to add a .dodsrcfile with the contents: HTTP.TIMEOUT=20 and place it in the root folder of this repository.
Then the opendap request should timeout before the gunicorn process times, out. solr_dist will print a timeout error, but the document will still be indexed with this solution.

[mortenwh]

@shamlymajeed - can you take a look at this, also in relation to #211?