Session update interval goes berserk

[Error403]

Hi,

When I'm idling for a while, the update intervals go from 2 seconds to 3, then 5, then NaNs or something like that. When that last value is displayed, it seems like the windows is trying to refresh every half second or so, then it finally loses the connection.

I tried putting the timeout to 300000 and other things, but it seems like all the changes I do in the general configs file are simply ignored, even if I do /rehash.

My only change is that I have to authenticate my users that are stored in a mysql database. They login using a unique userid and password, if successful the script fecthes the first name and family name then does

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param["nick"] = "$firstname $family_name";

Any ideas?
Also, is there any way or feature to make the browser's takbar button flash upon certain events to tell the user something needs its attention?

Thanks!

[OldWolf]

Well, if you're using get/post at all on the page, that's likely to cause errors. It's hard to give you a good answer without a link or the code.

[Error403]

Thanks.. I realized it was that get/post thing, and also the frozennicks parameter. The get/post was overloading the mysql server, and the frozennicks was making it refresh in very short intervals. That explained why the system processes went up 100% on the server.

[kriko]

This seems to happen in freshly installed scritp too - on 2 servers.
When it reaches the end of the array, client starts to "attack" server, instead of sticking
with last value.

For e.g. you can try to set delay steps to a shorter list:

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$params["refresh_delay_steps"] = array(2000,5000,5000,10000);

and wait 10 seconds - after that NaNs will be displayed.

It doesn't occur by default, because delay steps list is a bit longer, but if you wait till the end,
it will happen the same.

[kriko]

...and I think this is the fix:
data/public/js/pfclient.js

replace calcDelay function with:

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  calcDelay: function()
  {
    var lastact = new Date().getTime() - this.last_activity_time;
    var dlist = this.refresh_delay_steps.slice();
    var limit;
    var delay = null;

    while (typeof (d = dlist.shift()) != "undefined")
    {
      var limit = dlist.shift();

      if (d < delay) continue;
      if (lastact > limit) delay = d;
    }

    if (delay == null) delay = this.refresh_delay;
    return delay;
  },