squidowl/halloy

WHO being rate-limited

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jtbx commented

I repeatedly get the following message in my Halloy server console:

* End of /WHO list.
WHO This command could not be completed because it has been used recently, and is rate-limited.

Why does Halloy need to poll WHO so often? It's slowing down my connection.

casperstorm commented

We poll every 60 second but only if they don't support away notify.
I'll make it configurable and increase it by default to 3-5 minutes.

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jtbx commented

Thank you very much <3

aeadio commented

This issue is still appearing for Libera in the latest version of Halloy, 2024.12. who_poll_interval and who_retry_interval seem to be ignored. Snippet from config:

[servers.znc-libera]
server = "<redacted>.ts.net"
port = 6501
use_tls = false
username = "<redacted>/libera"
password = "<redacted>"
nickname = "<redacted>"
realname = "<redacted>"
who_poll_interval = 3600
who_retry_interval = 3600

I get spammed with rate-limited messages regardless of which value is provided to those tunables. In fact, the rate limiting seems to be so bad, I can't do anything on Libera after startup -- like join additional channels or send messages.

I'm not interested in seeing who is away, so it's bizarre to me that this feature is not configurable.

andymandias commented

ZNC supports away-notify, so you shouldn't be seeing continued WHO spam. There will be a burst when launching Halloy, but that should be it. Would you please open a new issue with your ZNC version and enabled modules @aeadio, so I can try to reproduce the issue.

Edit: Oops, a new issue was created while I was writing my reply. I'll ask for ZNC info there.