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authorEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2022-11-14 08:07:02 +0000
committerEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2022-11-16 02:42:39 +0000
commitf7ac353a6e88abdae687cc30d7562a2171684d51 (patch)
treee0fb36cd0e51a6c01a002039ee6a4810dc90f54c
parent4d78e55e9d6ca77f8b1ef0f19e44cc33cc2cb981 (diff)
downloadpublic-inbox-f7ac353a6e88abdae687cc30d7562a2171684d51.tar.gz
Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> Thanks for confirming things work as intended.  I think the
> default should be clamped, though... 15 seems a bit high for
> smaller IMAP servers *shrug*

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Subject: [PATCH] lei q|up: limit default write --jobs for IMAP(S)

IMAP(S) servers often limit per-user connections, so avoid
bumping into limits to improve the out-of-the-box experience.
4 seems like a conservative default, since we already chose
that number for remote HTTP(S) endpoints.

Link: https://public-inbox.org/meta/20220910201958.GA12212@dcvr/
-rw-r--r--Documentation/lei-q.pod4
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm7
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lei-q.pod b/Documentation/lei-q.pod
index 8134223e..d52c5b04 100644
--- a/Documentation/lei-q.pod
+++ b/Documentation/lei-q.pod
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ Set the number of query and write worker processes for parallelism.
 C<QUERY_WORKERS> defaults to the number of CPUs available, but 4 per
 remote (HTTP/HTTPS) host.
 
-C<WRITE_WORKERS> defaults to the number of CPUs available for Maildir,
-IMAP/IMAPS, and mbox* destinations.
+C<WRITE_WORKERS> defaults to 75% of the number of CPUs available for
+Maildir and mbox* destinations, but 4 per IMAP/IMAPS host.
 
 Omitting C<QUERY_WORKERS> but leaving the comma (C<,>) allows
 one to only set C<WRITE_WORKERS>
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm
index df9c32b3..0f839236 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm
@@ -39,8 +39,11 @@ sub _start_query { # used by "lei q" and "lei up"
                         $lms->lms_write_prepare->lms_pause; # just create
                 }
         }
-        $l2m and $l2m->{-wq_nr_workers} //= $mj //
-                int($nproc * 0.75 + 0.5); # keep some CPU for git
+        $l2m and $l2m->{-wq_nr_workers} //= $mj // do {
+                # keep some CPU for git, and don't overload IMAP destinations
+                my $n = int($nproc * 0.75 + 0.5);
+                $self->{net} && $n > 4 ? 4 : $n;
+        };
 
         # descending docid order is cheapest, MUA controls sorting order
         $self->{mset_opt}->{relevance} //= -2 if $l2m || $opt->{threads};