Re: Preventing bots from starving other users?

2009-11-16 Thread Wout Mertens
Hi John, On Nov 15, 2009, at 8:29 PM, John Lauro wrote: I would probably do that sort of throttling at the OS level with iptables, etc... Hmmm How? I don't want to throw away the requests, just queue them. Looking for iptables rate limiting it seems that you can only drop the request.

Re: Preventing bots from starving other users?

2009-11-16 Thread Karsten Elfenbein
Just create an additional backend and assign the bots to it. You can set queues and max connections there as needed. Also an additional tip might be to adjust the robots.txt file as some bots can be slowed down. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=48620 Check if the

RE: Preventing bots from starving other users?

2009-11-16 Thread John Lauro
@formilux.org Subject: Re: Preventing bots from starving other users? Hi John, On Nov 15, 2009, at 8:29 PM, John Lauro wrote: I would probably do that sort of throttling at the OS level with iptables, etc... Hmmm How? I don't want to throw away the requests, just queue them. Looking

RE: Preventing bots from starving other users?

2009-11-16 Thread John Marrett
-Original Message- From: Wout Mertens [mailto:wout.mert...@gmail.com] Sent: November 16, 2009 9:19 AM To: John Lauro Cc: haproxy@formilux.org Subject: Re: Preventing bots from starving other users? On Nov 16, 2009, at 2:43 PM, John Lauro wrote: Oopps, my bad... It's

Re: Preventing bots from starving other users?

2009-11-16 Thread German Gutierrez
Perhaps this plugin could be useful, never used, tho: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins.TWikiCacheAddOn On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Wout Mertens wout.mert...@gmail.comwrote: On Nov 16, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Karsten Elfenbein wrote: Just create an additional backend and assign the bots

Preventing bots from starving other users?

2009-11-15 Thread Wout Mertens
Hi there, I was wondering if HAProxy helps in the following situation: - We have a wiki site which is quite slow - Regular users don't have many problems - We also get crawled by a search bot, which creates many concurrent connections, more than the hardware can handle - Therefore, service is

RE: Preventing bots from starving other users?

2009-11-15 Thread John Lauro
32MB of RAM, the hardware should be able to handle that... -Original Message- From: Wout Mertens [mailto:wout.mert...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:57 AM To: haproxy@formilux.org Subject: Preventing bots from starving other users? Hi there, I was wondering if HAProxy

Re: Preventing bots from starving other users?

2009-11-15 Thread Aleksandar Lazic
On Son 15.11.2009 15:57, Wout Mertens wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if HAProxy helps in the following situation: - We have a wiki site which is quite slow - Regular users don't have many problems - We also get crawled by a search bot, which creates many concurrent connections, more than

Re: Preventing bots from starving other users?

2009-11-15 Thread Łukasz Jagiełło
2009/11/15 Wout Mertens wout.mert...@gmail.com: I was wondering if HAProxy helps in the following situation: - We have a wiki site which is quite slow - Regular users don't have many problems - We also get crawled by a search bot, which creates many concurrent connections, more than the