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Rate-Limiting for set_presence changes #16705

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matrixbot opened this issue Dec 21, 2023 · 1 comment
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Rate-Limiting for set_presence changes #16705

matrixbot opened this issue Dec 21, 2023 · 1 comment

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matrixbot commented Dec 21, 2023

This issue has been migrated from #16705.


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I notice that within the last few days (probably with a new version of Element Desktop) these clients start flooding my synapse server with presence changes if there are multiple sessions.
I observed over 30+ presence requests per second from single clients, giving noticeable load on the server.
These are changes which are flipping between set_presence=online and set_presence=unavailable.
This might be a bug somewhere in Element or Synapse at the moment, but a rogue client could deliberately flood the server with presence changes which then can render it completely unusable.
There should be a rate-limiting applied for presence updates per user or per session in order to prevent this.

@matrixbot matrixbot changed the title Dummy issue Rate-Limiting for set_presence changes Dec 22, 2023
@matrixbot matrixbot reopened this Dec 22, 2023
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Still HARD flooding the browser and the server
1.98.0

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