swift/doc/source/ratelimit.rst
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Rate Limiting
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Rate limiting in swift is implemented as a pluggable middleware. Rate
limiting is performed on requests that result in database writes to the
account and container sqlite dbs. It uses memcached and is dependent on
the proxy servers having highly synchronized time. The rate limits are
limited by the accuracy of the proxy server clocks.
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Configuration
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All configuration is optional. If no account or container limits are provided
there will be no rate limiting. Configuration available:
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Option Default Description
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clock_accuracy 1000 Represents how accurate the proxy servers'
system clocks are with each other. 1000
means that all the proxies' clock are
accurate to each other within 1
millisecond. No ratelimit should be
higher than the clock accuracy.
max_sleep_time_seconds 60 App will immediately return a 498 response
if the necessary sleep time ever exceeds
the given max_sleep_time_seconds.
log_sleep_time_seconds 0 To allow visibility into rate limiting set
this value > 0 and all sleeps greater than
the number will be logged.
rate_buffer_seconds 5 Number of seconds the rate counter can
drop and be allowed to catch up (at a
faster than listed rate). A larger number
will result in larger spikes in rate but
better average accuracy.
account_ratelimit 0 If set, will limit PUT and DELETE requests
to /account_name/container_name.
Number is in requests per second.
account_whitelist '' Comma separated lists of account names that
will not be rate limited.
account_blacklist '' Comma separated lists of account names that
will not be allowed. Returns a 497 response.
container_ratelimit_size '' When set with container_limit_x = r:
for containers of size x, limit requests
per second to r. Will limit PUT, DELETE,
and POST requests to /a/c/o.
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The container rate limits are linearly interpolated from the values given. A
sample container rate limiting could be:
container_ratelimit_100 = 100
container_ratelimit_200 = 50
container_ratelimit_500 = 20
This would result in
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Container Size Rate Limit
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0-99 No limiting
100 100
150 75
500 20
1000 20
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