On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:13:13 -0800 Stephen Wood <smwood4 at gmail.com> wrote: > During any given 100 uploads, I'll usually see between 1 to 4% of the > calls give a 404. In my practice, all such cases were related to custer health. However, since your 404 occurs when Object controler in proxy checks if container exists, and the container exists long term (so it's not a health issue like overloaded updater), it may indeed be the transient "DB locked" issue that Kuo mentioned. I think. Try to apply this: https://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/700479bd67be23648b5998ee4353db7e290f8601 -- Pete