Limit zone state size

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Thu Jul 26 21:31:06 UTC 2012


Hello!

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:37:10PM -0300, Jader H. Silva wrote:

> Hello.
> I've been reading the limit zone documentation and it seems there's some
> ambiguity about the size of states.
> There are some mentions in the docs about states being 32 or 64 bytes in
> size (256/512 bits), but there's also this sentence:
> 
> "can keep about 32 thousand 32-bit states, and about 16 thousand 64-byte
> states"
> 
> So, limit zone states are kept in 32/64 bits or 32/64 bytes (256/512 bits)?
> 
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_conn_module.html#limit_zone

>From previous sentences and numbers in the one in question it 
should be clear enough that it's 32 bytes, not bits.  That was 
just typo, fixed, thanks.

Maxim Dounin



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