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1 #summary Connection-level rate limiting
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2 #labels Stage-Beta
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4 = Introduction =
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6 On some servers, especially public ones, it is desired to make sure that everyone gets their fair share of system resources (and no more).
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8 mod_limits allows you to specify traffic bandwidth limits, preventing any single connection hogging the server's CPU, RAM and bandwidth.
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10 = Details =
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12 mod_limits detects when a connection has exceeded its traffic allowance and temporarily ignores a connection. Due to the way TCP and the OS's network API works no data is lost, only slowed.
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14 = Configuration =
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15 Currently mod_limits is configured per connection type. The possible connection types are:
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17 * c2s
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18 * s2sin
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19 * s2sout
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20 * component
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22 The limits are specified like so in the *global* section of your config (they cannot be per-host):
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24 {{{
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25 limits = {
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26 c2s = {
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27 rate = "3kb/s";
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28 burst = "2s";
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29 };
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30 s2sin = {
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31 rate = "10kb/s";
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32 burst = "5s";
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33 };
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34 }
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35 }}}
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37 All units are in terms of _bytes_, not _bits_, so that "kb/s" is interpreted as "kilobytes per second", where a kilobyte is 1000 bytes.
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39 = Compatibility =
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40 || 0.9 || Works ||
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41 || 0.8 || Doesn't work(`*`) ||
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43 (`*`) This module can be made to work in 0.8 if you do two things:
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45 # Install [http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/raw-file/d46948d3018a/util/throttle.lua util.throttle] into your Prosody source's util/ directory.
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46 # If you use libevent apply [http://prosody.im/patches/prosody08-mod-limits-fix.patch this patch] to net/server_event.lua.