TODO for 2.0 ------------ Roster templates may not be working properly (esp. with multiple items). Check and fix if necessary. Make sure that available presence in response to a s10n accept arrives after the type='subscribed' (see chat with Nathan Walp) c2s may not be properly detecting client connections dropping. I feel like I've checked this numerous times, so check once more, once and for all. Modify user-load chain calls to indicate if the user is being loaded for a session, or just for delivery. Don't load rosters (and other large things) in that case. ========== The requirement for this is that large presence broadcasts (for the same host) result in many users being loaded for delivery, only to find out that they have no sessions online, and then being unloaded again. If we could stop some parts of the user data being loaded when the user is loaded only for packet delivery, then the overhead could be kept to a minimum. Privacy lists make this hard, if not impossible. Privacy lists must be loaded at packet delivery time, because the user may have a default list. That default list may have rules based on roster group, so the roster must be loaded. A partial solution might be to have a module that runs in in-router before mod_privacy, that watches for presence packets and drops them if the user is not online. This should work, because even if the presence packet was allowed by the default privacy list, it'll get dropped anyway because mod_deliver would find later that there are no sessions online. This doesn't fix the problem completely though because mod_privacy needs the user's roster loaded in order to process a default list with rules based on roster group. There's no way for mod_privacy to call into mod_roster to get it to load the roster on demand. Long term, there's a couple of possibilities. In general, I believe its reasonable to either have all user data loaded, or none of it - anything in between requires a measure of the "importance" of certain data (which doesn't scale and is highly subjective) or a on-demand system of loading data, which requires dependency graphs and inter-module communication. This stuff isn't impossible, but I don't want to go there if I can help it. It might be better to simply implement a (configurable) delay before unused user data is unloaded. This will still mean that the first presence broadcast can get sluggish, but after this things should chug along nicely. A patch for the partial soltuion mentioned above has been implemented, as _presence_in_router(). This is not a complete fix, but does workaround the most common case. ==========