Remove the cap on federation retry interval.

Essentially the intention here is to end up blacklisting servers which never respond to federation requests. Fixes #5113.
matrix-org · Sep 12, 2019 · d0a69bb · d0a69bb
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diff --git a/changelog.d/6026.feature b/changelog.d/6026.feature
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+Stop sending federation transactions to servers which have been down for a long time.
diff --git a/synapse/util/retryutils.py b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
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 # 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):
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		Stop sending federation transactions to servers which have been down for a long time.