On Saturday 18 Feb 2012 07:32:06 Robert Collins wrote:
> The wildcard approach would indeed support up to 23 *total* tabs in
> the browser : but note that on the 24th tab, the site will halt. This
Don't you mean 23 tabs that have merge proposals open? No other page holds a
long connection to LP. Also, someone said this only affects Firefox I think?
This is why I think this will be virtually a non-issue once we fix the
wildcard domain.
> cap is shared amongst all pages, so twitter, facebook, identi,ca,
> gmail, google plus - each of those counts towards the limit; you don't
> actually need /all that/ many things active to run into a limit.
>
> I think the wildcard approach + docs is a reasonable first step, but I
> think we need to make sure we can tell how many concurrent polls users
> have (because that will cost *us* as well) - one way would be to
> capture the LP username in the long poll request and log it : even if
> its not trusted data (e.g. not secure) we'd be able to get indicative
> statistics ('total concurrency was no higher than N for X users').
If we knew how many long polls were open we could just stop providing pages
that have long polls once the limit is reached.
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