feat: Modify the token refresh window (#1419)

Set the token refresh window from 30s to 3 minutes and 45 seconds.
googleapis · Nov 15, 2023 · c6af1d6 · c6af1d6
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diff --git a/google/auth/_helpers.py b/google/auth/_helpers.py
@@ -23,11 +23,9 @@
 
 from google.auth import exceptions
 
-# Token server doesn't provide a new a token when doing refresh unless the
-# token is expiring within 30 seconds, so refresh threshold should not be
-# more than 30 seconds. Otherwise auth lib will send tons of refresh requests
-# until 30 seconds before the expiration, and cause a spike of CPU usage.
-REFRESH_THRESHOLD = datetime.timedelta(seconds=20)
+# The smallest MDS cache used by this library stores tokens until 4 minutes from
+# expiry.
+REFRESH_THRESHOLD = datetime.timedelta(minutes=3, seconds=45)
 
 
 def copy_docstring(source_class):