Staggering the MetadataProvider reloadInterval

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/25/11 4:22 PM, "Scott Klawitter" <sklawitter at ebsco.com> wrote:
>
>I was referring to staggering the reloadInterval for each chained
>MetadataProvider.
>
>The reason: Federations like the UKfederation take a long time to
>download the metadata. I wasn't sure if this had an effect on
>performance of the SP processing requests.

Not anymore, it's in the background.

>Is there a suggested reloadInterval value to use for an SP?

No. It depends on the metadata source, as I said. If the metadata only
updates once a day, then it doesn't matter much if you check it every 4
hours. If the metadata might get changed at any time in response to a
compromise, then the more you check the safer you are up to a point.

Every federation should publish their own guidelines.

-- Scott