[Tilesathome] Rate Limiting & be gentle with you requests

[spaetz]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Raphael Studer wrote:
> Instead of limiting the requests per user, it would be possible to
> lower the priority of requests. Lets say first priority for at least
> 10 requests per user, second priority for the next 100 requests and
> third priorit for further requests from this user.

That sounds like a good idea, rather than blindly accepting whatever priority people tell us their requests have, we could auto-lower the priority if they have already many jobs going. /me likes that. Thanks for the idea.

> To stop malicious using of the requests, it would also be possible to
> choose the IP as criteria for choose a priority instead of the
> username.

Mhh, using the IP would be a good option and would allow us to have many "infofreeway:Anonymous" requests from different people. I will think about that one next week. How frequent are transparent proxies from big ISPs which hide their customers under 1 IP?

> An other limiting thing could be, remove all not active requests older
> than 48 hours (if this isn't done allready).

They time out already, yes.

Thanks for the suggestions
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