Rate limiting intervals

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Friday 17 January 2014 18:26:09 PieterVI wrote:
> Hi Valentin,
> 
> I know that 100r/s is equal to 1 request per 10 milliseconds.
> 
> If you specifiy 100r/s nginx will send 100 requests within the first
> milliseconds of a certain second.
[..]

Yes, but only if you have set burst=100.

There is no second/minute granularity in limit_req module.  It's just a 
measure.

If you set 100r/s with zero burst, then every request received in less
than 10 milliseconds after the previous permitted one will be declined.

  wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev