[aur-general] AUR rate limiting

[Jelle van der Waa]

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 at 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
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