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| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py index 9094dab0fe..abb5ae5815 100644 --- a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py +++ b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py @@ -499,8 +499,15 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient: Note that the above intervals are *in addition* to the time spent waiting for the request to complete (up to `timeout` ms). - NB: the long retry algorithm takes over 20 minutes to complete, with - a default timeout of 60s! + NB: the long retry algorithm takes over 20 minutes to complete, with a + default timeout of 60s! It's best not to use the `long_retries` option + for something that is blocking a client so we don't make them wait for + aaaaages, whereas some things like sending transactions (server to + server) we can be a lot more lenient but its very fuzzy / hand-wavey. + + In the future, we could be more intelligent about doing this sort of + thing by looking at things with the bigger picture in mind, + https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8917 ignore_backoff: true to ignore the historical backoff data and try the request anyway. |