[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23216: Create "WP Heartbeat" API

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#23216: Create "WP Heartbeat" API
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 Reporter:  azaozz          |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Administration  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  autosave-redo   |
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Comment (by PaulGregory):

 @DavidAnderson You seem to be ignoring the fact that when you load admin
 pages from localhost on your laptop, your CPU is running the browser as
 well as the server. Indeed your laptop is most likely running all sorts of
 things that a VPS does not run. I think it is reasonable that WordPress
 can assume that everyone's hosting can cope with more than 4
 pageloads/heartbeats a minute. Any hypothetical 'It's the apocalypse and
 CPU cycles are expensive' ration-time poster like "Is Your Heartbeat
 Strictly Necessary?" would be right alongside "Think Before You Click That
 Thing Again So Soon!"

 You can rest assured that blocking heartbeat connections would be a much
 more targeted and deliberate act for a host to do than disabling loopback
 connections. Besides, the possibility of something being stopped is a poor
 reason not to start something.

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