On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:45 PM Jelle van der Waa <je...@vdwaa.nl> wrote:
> On 12/21/18 at 03:40am, Macca wrote: > > > > On 21 Dec. 2018, 3:26 am, at 3:26 am, Drew DeVault via aur-general < > aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > >Following up from IRC. Hello! > > > > > >I run a public build service which has Arch Linux support and uses yay > > >to install AUR packages when requested. I recently had some users > > >running up against the AUR rate limit. > > > > > >The current rate limit window (1 day) seems a bit strict. Would it be > > >possible to apply the rate limit hourly? Today it's 4000 requests per > > >day, but ~166 requests per hour would be a similar load on the server > > >but a bit more forgiving, users would only have to wait an hour before > > >attempting their builds again. > > The issue here seems to be that yay queries for provides in the AUR. > Which causes excsessive requests to be made. [1] > > [1] https://builds.sr.ht/~delthas/job/17157 That should probably be fixed as well, but I agree with making the rate limit window 1 hour, at most. A 24 hour API restriction on the AUR API is really nasty imo.
