From 2c75765a331b460b7d069027079fe88769f92400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Claus-Peter=20H=C3=BCbner?= <claus-peter.huebner@email.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 21:50:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] remove while-loop

---
 backend/src/federation/validateCommunities.ts | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/src/federation/validateCommunities.ts b/backend/src/federation/validateCommunities.ts
index 4c31496d0..d042ba9c7 100644
--- a/backend/src/federation/validateCommunities.ts
+++ b/backend/src/federation/validateCommunities.ts
@@ -11,12 +11,11 @@ export async function startValidateCommunities(timerInterval: number): Promise<v
   logger.info(
     `Federation: startValidateCommunities loop with an interval of ${timerInterval} ms...`,
   )
-  while (true) {
+  // better to use setTimeout twice than setInterval once -> see https://javascript.info/settimeout-setinterval
+  setTimeout(function run() {
     validateCommunities()
-    logger.debug(`Federation: loop starts sleeping...`)
-    await sleep(timerInterval)
-    logger.debug(`Federation: loop ends sleeping`)
-  }
+    setTimeout(run, timerInterval)
+  }, timerInterval)
 }
 
 export async function validateCommunities(): Promise<void> {