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On 06/14/2016 11:02 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> A question came up in the nova IRC channel this morning about the
> api_rate_limit config option in nova which was only for the v2 API.
> 
> Sean Dague explained that it never really worked because it was per API
> server so if you had more than one API server it was busted. There is no
> in-tree replacement in nova.
> 
> So the open question here is, what are people doing as an alternative?

Just as a clarification. The toy implementation that used to live in
Nova was even worse then described above. The counters were kept per
process. So if you had > 1 API worker (default is # of workers per CPU)
it would be inconsistent.

This is why it was defaulted in false in Havana, and never carried
forward to the new API backend.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
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