All configuration is optional. If no account or container limits are provided there will be no rate limiting. Configuration available:

Table 4.20. Configuration options for rate limiting in proxy-server.conf file
Option Default Description
clock_accuracy 1000 Represents how accurate the proxy servers' system clocks are with each other. 1000 means that all the proxies' clock are accurate to each other within 1 millisecond. No ratelimit should be higher than the clock accuracy.
max_sleep_time_seconds 60 App will immediately return a 498 response if the necessary sleep time ever exceeds the given max_sleep_time_seconds.
log_sleep_time_seconds 0 To allow visibility into rate limiting set this value > 0 and all sleeps greater than the number will be logged.
account_ratelimit 0 If set, will limit all requests to /account_name and PUTs to /account_name/container_name. Number is in requests per second
account_whitelist ‘' Comma separated lists of account names that will not be rate limited.
account_blacklist ‘' Comma separated lists of account names that will not be allowed. Returns a 497 response.
container_ratelimit_size ‘' When set with container_limit_x = r: for containers of size x, limit requests per second to r. Will limit GET and HEAD requests to /account_name/container_name and PUTs and DELETEs to /account_name/container_name/object_name

The container rate limits are linearly interpolated from the values given. A sample container rate limiting could be:

container_ratelimit_100 = 100

container_ratelimit_200 = 50

container_ratelimit_500 = 20

This would result in

Table 4.21. Values for Rate Limiting with Sample Configuration Settings
Container Size Rate Limit
0-99 No limiting
100 100
150 75
500 20
1000 20


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