Enable cleaning up extremities with dummy events by default to preven…

…t undue build up of forward extremities. (#5884)
matrix-org · Sep 25, 2019 · a4f3ca4 · a4f3ca4
1 parent 77dc709
commit a4f3ca4
Show file tree

Hide file tree

Showing 2 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/changelog.d/5884.feature b/changelog.d/5884.feature
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Enable cleaning up extremities with dummy events by default to prevent undue build up of forward extremities.
diff --git a/synapse/config/server.py b/synapse/config/server.py
@@ -355,10 +355,8 @@ class LimitRemoteRoomsConfig(object):
 
         _check_resource_config(self.listeners)
 
-        # An experimental option to try and periodically clean up extremities
-        # by sending dummy events.
         self.cleanup_extremities_with_dummy_events = config.get(
-            "cleanup_extremities_with_dummy_events", False
+            "cleanup_extremities_with_dummy_events", True
         )
 
     def has_tls_listener(self):
Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
		@@ -0,0 +1 @@
		Enable cleaning up extremities with dummy events by default to prevent undue build up of forward extremities.