periodically purge expired subscriptions

app/Main.hs

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ readConfig = do
           , confRequestRetries = 3
           }
         sConf = ServiceConf
-          { confSubscriptionExpiryTime = fromIntegral $ 2*3600 `div` speedup
+          { confSubscriptionExpiryTime = fromIntegral 12*3600 / fromIntegral speedup
           , confServicePort = read servicePortString
           , confServiceHost = confDomainString
           , confLogfilePath = "../simulationData/logs/" <> confDomainString <> ".log"

src/Hash2Pub/PostService.hs

@@ -618,8 +618,26 @@ launchWorkerThreads :: DHT d => PostService d -> IO ()
 launchWorkerThreads serv = concurrently_
     (processIncomingPosts serv)
     $ concurrently_
-        (fetchTagPosts serv)
+        (purgeSubscriptionsThread serv)
-        (relayWorker serv)
+        $ concurrently_
+            (fetchTagPosts serv)
+            (relayWorker serv)
+
+
+-- | periodically remove expired subscription entries from relay subscribers
+purgeSubscriptionsThread :: PostService d -> IO ()
+purgeSubscriptionsThread serv = forever $ do
+    -- read config
+    now <- getPOSIXTime
+    let
+        purgeInterval = confSubscriptionExpiryTime (serviceConf serv) / 10
+    -- no need to atomically lock this, as newly incoming subscriptions do not
+    -- need to be purged
+    tagMap <- readTVarIO $ subscribers serv
+    forM_ tagMap $ \(subscriberMapSTM, _, _) ->
+        -- but each subscriberMap needs to be modified atomically
+        atomically . modifyTVar' subscriberMapSTM $ HMap.filter (\(_, ts) -> ts > now)
+    threadDelay $ fromEnum purgeInterval `div` 10^6
 
 
 -- | process the pending relay inbox of incoming posts from the internal queue:
@@ -652,8 +670,8 @@ processIncomingPosts serv = forever $ do
                   -- idea for the experiment: each post publication makes the initial posting instance subscribe to all contained tags
                   now <- getPOSIXTime
                   subscriptionStatus <- HMap.lookup (hashtagToId tag) <$> readTVarIO (ownSubscriptions serv)
-                  -- if not yet subscribed or subscription expires within 2 minutes, (re)subscribe to tag
+                  -- if not yet subscribed or subscription expires within 5 minutes, (re)subscribe to tag
-                  when (maybe True (\subLease -> now - subLease < 120) subscriptionStatus) $
+                  when (maybe True (\subLease -> now - subLease < 300) subscriptionStatus) $
                       void $ clientSubscribeTo serv tag
 
                   -- for evaluation, return the tag of the successfully forwarded post