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AI-generatedMax retry time exceeded – Octokit.js connection pool exhaustion
When integrating Octokit.js to call GitHub's REST API, developers occasionally observe the log message “Max retry time exceeded” during periods of high request volume. The goal is to determine whether this symptom originates from client‑side connection pool exhaustion caused by OS file‑descriptor limits or from retaining stale connections after transient 502
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