Help understanding rate limiting log entry

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:43:55AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:

> I just implemented rate limiting.
> 
> Could someone please explain what
> 
> *42450 is / means

This is a connection number, also available as $connection.

> 109154#109154 is / means

This is nginx worker PID (also available as $pid) and thread identifier.

> and what also
> 
> 10.195 (I take it 10 is the size my bucket, but its the 195 I dont
> understand)

This is number of requests acumulated in the bucket.  If this 
number is more than burst defined (10 in your case), further 
request will be rejected.

Number of requests in the bucket is reduced according to the rate 
defined and current time, and may not be integer.  The ".195" 
means that an additional request will be allowed in about 195 
milliseconds assuming rate 1r/s.

> Here is the log entry:
> 
> 2016/09/01 10:06:29 [error] 109154#109154: *42450 limiting requests, excess:
> 10.195 by zone "req_limit_per_ip", client: 54.237.120.210, server: default,
> request: "GET

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