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is there a way to have a rate limit in node red that dosnt delay the first message? the docs say the standard delay/rate limit node should do that but if i set a 20 second rate limit it can take over 30 seconds for the first message to be passed through.

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this is debug output from immediately before (the full message) and after (just the topic) a rate limit node. as you can see the red message takes 18 seconds to be passed through and the green one takes 37 seconds. i made sure to wait at least 30 seconds before doing this test to ensure there were no existing messages

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and ofc as soon as i post this i find this GH issue https://github.com/node-red/node-red/issues/1902

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Delay node - rate limit holds back first message if "per topic" is...

The delay node does not let the first message pass, if it is configured as "Rate limit" with "for each msg.topic".

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