Is It Generally Recommended To Close Api Client Sessions? Like If I Open A Client Like This:

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is it generally recommended to close API client sessions? Like if I open a client like this:
from clearml.backend_api.session.client import APIClient client = APIClient() ...Some of the tasks I have are services which such a client open all the time, but these tasks generally do something and then sleep for 24 hours (such as cleanup).
Just wondering if a better practice would be to open and close the sessions when necessary.

  				
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Hi ElegantCoyote26 , by default, sessions simply generate a time-limited token and do not consume server resources. You can keep such a session, or start a new one, it shouldn't make any difference (of course, generating a token requires a little bit of work on the server side, so constantly doing that is not a good practice)

  				
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can you elaborate a bit on the token side? i'm not sure exactly what would be a bad practice here

  				
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Generating a token is another API call the server needs to handle, so if you have a lot of services constantly running, using the same session in each service saves up on API calls and thus puts less load on the server

  				
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