From 7cc5925ec4ad4fb0f85000d1d4c0731bbbea4c75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Hodgson <matthew@matrix.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:28:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] increase initialSyncLimit enormously to avoid slow gappy
 /syncs for now

---
 src/components/structures/MatrixChat.js | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/components/structures/MatrixChat.js b/src/components/structures/MatrixChat.js
index e5af2a86b5..df74cf5de1 100644
--- a/src/components/structures/MatrixChat.js
+++ b/src/components/structures/MatrixChat.js
@@ -522,7 +522,9 @@ module.exports = React.createClass({
         UserActivity.start();
         Presence.start();
         cli.startClient({
-            pendingEventOrdering: "end"
+            pendingEventOrdering: "end",
+            // deliberately huge limit for now to avoid hitting gappy /sync's until gappy /sync performance improves
+            initialSyncLimit: 250,
         });
     },