grpc: received message larger than max (8653851 vs. 4194304)

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Saty picture Saty · Mar 26, 2019 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

The problem:

I am getting this error while receiving message in grpc:

rpc error: code = ResourceExhausted desc = grpc: received message larger than max (8653851 vs. 4194304)

What I tried:

I gave the option to increase the size of the message to be received but it still gave the same error which means this setting of maximum size didn't work: 

size := 1024 * 1024 * 12
opts = append(opts, grpc.WithDefaultCallOptions(grpc.MaxCallRecvMsgSize(size)))
conn, err := grpc.Dial(address, opts...)

Comments:

The default limit is 1024 * 1024 * 4 = 4194304 which is shown in the error message. I was expecting this limit to increase to 1024 * 1024 * 12 = 12582912 but clearly it didn't.

Answer

Sudhanshu Ambastha picture Sudhanshu Ambastha · Oct 26, 2019

Please try updating grpc.MaxCallSendMsgSize(s int) on your client to enable your client send larger message. This worked for me.

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