I'll give that a try. I really appreciate your help Maxim!


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 09:09:55AM -0600, Justin Deltener wrote:
>
> > Aha, that is the lightbulb moment.
> >
> > So if we're talking actual rate..which makes sense how would you setup a
> > scenario with the following requirements.
> >
> > You can have whatever rate you want as long as you don't exceed 5 proxy
> > requests in the same second. I don't care if 5 come within 5ms of each
> > other.. Hitting 6 total proxy requests in 1 second would kill the
> request.
> > It seems we can't really specify that without increasing the rate which
> in
> > turn could allow a sustained session with high rates to still have a ton
> of
> > requests come in to kill the server.
>
> What you are asking about is close to something like this:
>
> limit_req_zone ... rate=5r/s;
> limit_req ... burst=5 nodelay;
>
> That is, up to 5 requests (note "burst=5") are allowed at any rate
> without any delays. If there are more requests and the rate
> remains above 5r/s, they are rejected.
>
> > We're attempting to account for 301 redirects which spawn requests much
> > faster than normal human requests. I realize we could add a get param to
> > the url to excuse it from the limit, but that seems a bit out there..
> >
> > I also don't quite understand how long a burst rate can be sustained. It
> > seems one could set the default rate to 1/m and set the burst to whatever
> > you like..
> >
> > Does that make sense?
>
> The burst parameter configures maximum burst size, in requests (in
> terms of "leaky bucket" - it's the bucket size). In most cases,
> it's a reasonable aproach to set a relatively low rate, switch off
> delay, and configure a reasonable burst size to account for
> various things like redirects, opening multiple pages to read them
> later, and so on.
>
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