Mongoose hangs indefinitely when disconnected

I hava a koajs/mongoose REST service and when mongoDB goes down, all requests that hit my REST service hang indefinitely. I’m trying to configure mongoose in a way that it would fail any command when mongoose is not connected to mongo. Is this possible? I have tried using bufferCommands: false on my Schemas but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

[vkarpov15]

Mongoose and the mongodb driver both have their own buffering layers (something we’re hoping to remove in a subsequent release) so in order to have operations fail fast but the driver continues to reconnect in the background you need to:

1. Upgrade to 4.6.5 once it’s released (should be today)
2. Disable mongoose buffering with bufferCommands: false in the schema
3. Set the driver’s bufferMaxEntries to 0 like mongoose.connect(uri, { db: { bufferMaxEntries: 0 } })

[ulisesbocchio]

Yes sir. Like this:

var schema = new Schema({..}, { bufferCommands: false });

My goal is that any subsequent request to mongo going down will fail immediately