diff options
| author | aceArt-GmbH <33117017+aceArt-GmbH@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-11-07 14:51:53 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-11-07 13:51:53 +0000 |
| commit | 42f9d414c266188645ef2a36eeff05309b779a46 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a4b2161954848bfd3202845d78c911395821508 /docs | |
| parent | Do not reject `/sync` requests with unrecognised filter fields (#14369) (diff) | |
| download | synapse-42f9d414c266188645ef2a36eeff05309b779a46.tar.xz | |
Add example on how to load balance /sync requests (#14297)
Signed-off-by: lukas <lukas.walter@aceart.de> Signed-off-by: lukas <lukas.walter@aceart.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/workers.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/workers.md b/docs/workers.md index 5e1b9ba220..7ee8801161 100644 --- a/docs/workers.md +++ b/docs/workers.md @@ -305,9 +305,11 @@ may wish to run multiple groups of workers handling different endpoints so that load balancing can be done in different ways. For `/sync` and `/initialSync` requests it will be more efficient if all -requests from a particular user are routed to a single instance. Extracting a -user ID from the access token or `Authorization` header is currently left as an -exercise for the reader. Admins may additionally wish to separate out `/sync` +requests from a particular user are routed to a single instance. This can +be done e.g. in nginx via IP `hash $http_x_forwarded_for;` or via +`hash $http_authorization consistent;` which contains the users access token. + +Admins may additionally wish to separate out `/sync` requests that have a `since` query parameter from those that don't (and `/initialSync`), as requests that don't are known as "initial sync" that happens when a user logs in on a new device and can be *very* resource intensive, so |