just discovered an interesting way to lock up my computer's memory: setting the "endtime" for a continuous request far into the future (e.g. None). requests will just go on forever, memory wasn't being freed, and ultimately the server experiences a minor DDOS.
this is fine for get_events and get_stations, but the end time for a waveform request should be min(t, now-60) (a minute before now is usually safe; servers will have their own parameters to limit this)
would also need a catch to delete a request if the starttime is sooner than a minute ago
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just discovered an interesting way to lock up my computer's memory: setting the "endtime" for a continuous request far into the future (e.g. None). requests will just go on forever, memory wasn't being freed, and ultimately the server experiences a minor DDOS.
this is fine for
get_eventsandget_stations, but the end time for a waveformrequestshould bemin(t, now-60)(a minute before now is usually safe; servers will have their own parameters to limit this)would also need a catch to delete a request if the starttime is sooner than a minute ago