go config_error ai_generated true

rpc error: code = ResourceExhausted desc = grpc: received message larger than max (5242880 vs. 4194304)

ID: go/grpc-client-max-recv-message-size

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80%Fix Rate
88%Confidence
0Evidence
2024-06-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
1.3 active — — —

Root Cause

The gRPC server sent a response larger than the client's max receive message size (default 4 MB).

generic

中文

gRPC服务器发送的响应大于客户端的最大接收消息大小（默认4 MB）。

Workarounds

  1. 95% success Increase client max receive message size in dial options. 
    conn, err := grpc.Dial(address, grpc.WithDefaultCallOptions(grpc.MaxCallRecvMsgSize(10*1024*1024)))
  2. 85% success Use streaming RPC to handle large payloads in chunks. 
    service LargeData { rpc StreamData(stream Request) returns (stream Response); }

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Reduce the data size on the server side. 70% fail

    The data is necessary; shrinking may lose information.

  2. Set the max size on server only. 90% fail

    The client enforces its own limit independently.