Remove the cap on federation retry interval. (#6026)

Essentially the intention here is to end up blacklisting servers which never respond to federation requests. Fixes https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5113.
6 years ago · 3d882a7ba5
parent 0388beafe4
commit 3d882a7ba5
2 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
--- a/changelog.d/6026.feature
+++ b/changelog.d/6026.feature
@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Stop sending federation transactions to servers which have been down for a long time.
--- a/synapse/util/retryutils.py
+++ b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ MIN_RETRY_INTERVAL = 10 * 60 * 1000
 # how much we multiply the backoff by after each subsequent fail
 RETRY_MULTIPLIER = 5

-# a cap on the backoff
-MAX_RETRY_INTERVAL = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
+# a cap on the backoff. (Essentially none)
+MAX_RETRY_INTERVAL = 2 ** 63


 class NotRetryingDestination(Exception):
				`@ -0,0 +1 @@`
				`Stop sending federation transactions to servers which have been down for a long time.`