DracoBlue/node-facebook-client — Issue #15: Facebook stops responding after a while
Author: beatlevic
Created: 2011-12-26 12:43:33+00:00
State: open

We are also using the Facebook client, and we seem to be experiencing the same issue as reported by Ran (reported on your weblog). We request the facebook api every 30 seconds for an update, and do that for multiple users (separately in their own respective loops). After a while, facebook stops responding, and all requests freeze and return nothing. Only after a restart of node everything works fine again, until facebook stops responding again. Do you have any idea? Could it be caused by the fact that every request is done with the same agent?
I don't believe we are hitting some Facebook limit, otherwise a restart wouldn't help. Any help here is greatly appreciated.

The freezing issue could be related to an https issue in node, see https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/728 which is fixed in node after v0.4.12, but this is just a wild guess.