On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 11:02:31PM +0200, Jerome Leclanche <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
So is running cower -u in conky every 5 seconds and not even knowing that this may send 50 requests per seconds on average because you have so many packages installed. The limit is there to show people that there is something wrong with their API usage and if the window is too small they'll never notice. We have resolved this particular issue for now though via a temporary reset of the limit. For the future I think the way to go is to implement configurable limits for certain subnets so that we can raise them to a suitable value. If someone wants to write a patch for this that would be very welcome. My initial idea is that a simple db table with the limits for each subnet should be enough I think. We don't (yet) need a webui for maintaining it. The tricky part is probably figuring out which limit shall apply to which IP. Since the AUR supports mysql and sqlite, any code has to work with both. If anyone wants to implement this, feel free to talk to me via mail or on IRC. Florian
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