On 15/03/12 15:17, MZMcBride wrote: When people ask me that question, I tell them to limit the concurrency, not the request rate. You can't do much damage with a single thread, whether queries complete in 10ms or 10s. But you can certainly do a lot of damage if you send a query once per second that takes 100 seconds to complete, using 100 concurrent clients. This is especially relevant for people who write toolserver scripts and the like. It's easy to write a server-side script which accidentally allows 100 concurrent connections to Wikimedia, when 100 people happen to use it at once, or if someone decides to try a DoS attack using the toolserver as a proxy. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l