I'll give that a try. I really appreciate your help Maxim!
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Maxim Dounin <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > Maxim Dounin > http://nginx.org/en/donation.html > > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx > -- Justin Deltener Nerd Curator | Alpha Omega Battle Squadron Toll Free: 1-877-216-5446 x3921 Local: 701-253-5906 x3921 RealTruck.com <http://www.realtruck.com/> Guiding Principle #3<http://www.realtruck.com/about-realtruck/#realtrucks-guiding-principles>: Improve
_______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
