From 64345b75597cba56e12a172fb227ac2c67993bbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kegan Dougal <kegan@matrix.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 16:41:19 +0000
Subject: Upper bound the backoff.

---
 synapse/appservice/scheduler.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'synapse')

diff --git a/synapse/appservice/scheduler.py b/synapse/appservice/scheduler.py
index 514148c947..ee5978da6e 100644
--- a/synapse/appservice/scheduler.py
+++ b/synapse/appservice/scheduler.py
@@ -214,7 +214,9 @@ class _Recoverer(object):
                 self.backoff_counter = 1
                 yield self.retry()
             else:
-                self.backoff_counter += 1
+                # cap the backoff to be around 18h => (2^16) = 65536 secs
+                if self.backoff_counter < 16:
+                    self.backoff_counter += 1
                 self.recover()
         else:
             self._set_service_recovered()
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