[ naviserver-Feature Requests-1365119 ] throttle inside nssock module??

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Feature Requests item #1365119, was opened at 2005-11-23 16:40
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Category: C-API
Group: Next Release (example)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Paul Bukowski (shacky)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: throttle inside nssock module??

Initial Comment:
It would be interesting if navi could limit in/out 
bandwitch per vhost... or per outgoing ip address.

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>Comment By: Stephen Deasey (sdeasey)
Date: 2005-12-08 23:35

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Hi Paul,

I haven't looked carefully, but from within nssock I don't
think you have enough information to throttle by virtual
host, although you could probably do it by IP address.

I guess there are a couple of reasons you might want to
throttle bandwidth.  As an ISP, you might want to limit each
customer to some fraction of your bandwidth, depending upon
their plan.  You may also want to protect against DOS
attacks, even accidental ones such as when someone tries to
mirror your website.

You have to be careful though.  Even something as simple as
limiting the bandwith per domain at an ISP can have
unforseen consequences.  For example, limiting the download
rate will cause server threads to be tied up for longer than
they otherwise would.  It may have been possible to serve
some file in a fraction of a second, but because you are
limiting bandwidth, the thread which is writing the data is
sleeping occasionaly.

You can end up in a situation where all threads are busy
serving data really slowly, refusing new connections and
generally giving poor service to all, when in reallity the
capacity of the server is much higher.

Anyway, it's not clear what the best solution is, and I
don't think that the standard nssock is the place to put it.

nssock is only a couple hundred line of well commented code.
 I would suggest you copy it to nsthrottle, and start
hacking.  The thttpd web server has throttling code and is
open source, so you could use that for inspiration.

Jump on to the naviserver developers mailing list and we'll
be glad to help you out.  If you come up with something,
we'll give you a CVS account and you can maintain your own
module here if you'd like.


Hope that helps.




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