From 4c0ec15bdcb8fbecf5e4f6cdd3017c9c53076972 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:53:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Comment

---
 synapse/util/retryutils.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/synapse/util/retryutils.py b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
index 0961dd5b2..5c7fc1afb 100644
--- a/synapse/util/retryutils.py
+++ b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
             elif exc_val.code == 404 and self.backoff_on_404:
                 valid_err_code = False
             elif exc_val.code == 429:
+                # 429 is us being aggresively rate limited, so lets rate limit
+                # ourselves.
                 valid_err_code = False
             elif exc_val.code < 500:
                 valid_err_code = True