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2 labels: |
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3 - 'Stage-Beta' |
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4 summary: 'Connection-level rate limiting' |
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5 ... |
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7 Introduction |
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8 ============ |
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10 On some servers, especially public ones, it is desired to make sure that |
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11 everyone gets their fair share of system resources (and no more). |
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13 mod\_limits allows you to specify traffic bandwidth limits, preventing |
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14 any single connection hogging the server's CPU, RAM and bandwidth. |
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16 Details |
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17 ======= |
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19 mod\_limits detects when a connection has exceeded its traffic allowance |
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20 and temporarily ignores a connection. Due to the way TCP and the OS's |
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21 network API works no data is lost, only slowed. |
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23 Configuration |
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24 ============= |
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25 |
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26 Currently mod\_limits is configured per connection type. The possible |
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27 connection types are: |
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29 - c2s |
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30 - s2sin |
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31 - s2sout |
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32 - component |
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33 |
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34 The limits are specified like so in the **global** section of your |
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35 config (they cannot be per-host): |
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37 ``` {.lua} |
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38 limits = { |
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40 rate = "3kb/s"; |
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42 }; |
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44 rate = "10kb/s"; |
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48 ``` |
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50 All units are in terms of *bytes*, not *bits*, so that "kb/s" is |
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51 interpreted as "kilobytes per second", where a kilobyte is 1000 bytes. |
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53 Compatibility |
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54 ============= |
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56 ----- ------------------- |
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57 0.9 Works |
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58 0.8 Doesn't work(\*) |
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63 1. Install |
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64 [util.throttle](http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/raw-file/d46948d3018a/util/throttle.lua) |
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65 into your Prosody source's util/ directory. |
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66 2. If you use libevent apply [this |
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67 patch](http://prosody.im/patches/prosody08-mod-limits-fix.patch) to |
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68 net/server\_event.lua. |