Andrew Fletcher published: 19 October 2023 1 minute read
OpenAI request timeout?
Retrying langchain.chat_models.openai.ChatOpenAI.completion_with_retry.<locals>._completion_with_retry in 4.0 seconds as it raised ServiceUnavailableError: The server is overloaded or not ready yet..Try increasing the timeout parameter. For example,
llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0, model_name=model)Change to
llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0, model_name=model, request_timeout=120)
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