syncitems response times out if the list is too long

[sithjawa]

Hi

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[raven_ap_morgan]

I've always wondered why syncevents would be used in the first place. In MultiLJ's History dialog, I use the "getevents" call, and have had no problems with it. Then again, I've not tried a stress test of the size that you're talking about.

One of the things on my "Programming projects I'll get to one of these days..." list is a LiveJournal archiving program. That's probably the point that syncevents vs. getevents would be compared and contrasted.

Raven

[sithjawa]

According to the protocol guide, syncitems is preferable to getevents because syncitems can return a much larger number of items and therefore requires fewer calls. Apparently the overhead per call is high.

[ghewgill]

Check out my ljdump program for one way to do an LJ archiver. In the source comments I noted some problem I had with syncitems so it looks like I used a combination of syncitems and getevents. I don't recall the details, but what I did might provide some insight.