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Periodical API timeout

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#918 opened on Sep 6, 2020

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Description

Something to investigate:

Firefox 80 and go-ipfs 0.7.0-rc1 with ~600 displays "automatic mode on/off" popup a few times an hour.

This is caused by timeout on swarm peers call we make to display peer count:

2020-09-06--19-11-26

Unsure about details (maybe my node runs on a slow machine? go-ipfs blocking?), needs more analysis.

Potential fixes:

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Research direction
Investigate the timeout of the 'swarm peers' API call. Check if the issue is due to slow node response or network delay. Consider adding retry logic or increasing timeout. Trace the handler that makes the periodic call and see how it handles failures.
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