<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">I do not necessarily have a say on what is discussed here, but:<br><ol><li>I believe putting known limitations in the docs makes sense. Who defined the docs as sticking to the most common use cases? Technical docs are technical docs.<br></li><li>Using burst answers a specific need which has not been expressed here (on the contrary I think it is mandatory such a behavior does not happen in this use case).</li><li>Awaiting nginx to serve more than 1000 r/s is reasonable for a Web server claiming to scale and having been designed for HA. Silently ignoring extra requests per millisecond is awful, especially if no-one knows about it.<br>The users are not supposed to guess by themselves that using requests limiting will make their availability silently drop...</li><li>This user is maybe the first, but it is over-optimistic to consider he might be alone.<br></li></ol><p>It could be interesting to know if you discarded documenting some other known limitations in your product(s), deciding on the behalf of the users what they should/need to know or not.<br></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">---<br></span><b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">B. R.</span></b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span></font></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Valentin V. Bartenev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vbart@nginx.com" target="_blank">vbart@nginx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tuesday 12 May 2015 09:25:05 jwroblewski wrote:<br>
> My use case is that upstreams are supposed to return within ~100ms,<br>
> therefore using burst is not an option. I wanted to use limit_req to filter<br>
> out traffic which is exceeds my backend's processing capacity, but<br>
> apparently it is not the right tool to use, if it only operates with<br>
> millisecond-precision...<br>
<br>
</span>What's problem with using burst? Could you explain why it's not an option<br>
for your case?<br>
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<br>
> Could you please document this limitation?<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>Patches are welcome.<br>
<br>
But you're the only person I can remember who cares about it. For most of<br>
the users it will be just superfluous details.<br>
<br>
wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev<br>
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