Evan Platt a écrit : > At 08:19 AM 3/29/2009, you wrote: > >> Evan, >> >> naw, hourly is just fine. >> >> we update "sought ruleset" at the same time. >> >> i spose i could change it, yet spam is not a once a day thing. >> >> spam is all day every day, so hourly is the least i want to see things >> updated. > > But you're not seeing things updated hourly. > > Seriously - look at the times you update, and see if over the past say > month, do you REALLY see anything updated 24 times in a day? Likely not. > > Look at when you see updates, and go with that. > > Think of it like this - if I know the mailman generally comes at 2:30, > but sometimes (once every few weeks) comes at 11:00 AM, am I going to go > out to the mailbox every day at 11:00, or 2:30? I'll go at 2:30. And if > say I go once at 11:00, and then he's not there, do I go again at 12? > Then 1? No. > >> sometimes i think it would be nice if we had a *come get* or "push" >> trigger >> on the serving side for some types of update "flags"... > > > Probably not going to happen for the reason of overloading servers - > which is also why they ask you to check once a day - so the servers > aren't overloaded. > > Checking once an hour is obscene. >
This is exagerated. if a channel isn't updated often, it is enough to set a high TTL. This way, probes will not go beyond the local cache.
