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* [PATCH 4/6] doc/config: user documentation for limiters
  2019-01-31 10:51  7% [PATCH 0/6] more minor cleanups and doc updates Eric Wong
@ 2019-01-31 10:51  7% ` Eric Wong
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ results
From: Eric Wong @ 2019-01-31 10:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: meta

I've relied on this feature to keep the VPS behind
https://public-inbox.org/git/ from OOM-ing since 2016,
so document it to ensure others can make use of low-end
servers like I do.

More limiters may become configurable for viewvcs and
solver functionality (or we continue using the default
one).
---
 Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod
index 23ebcc5..cad0c4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod
@@ -91,6 +91,18 @@ C<nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.public-inbox.general>
 
 Default: none
 
+=item publicinbox.<name>.httpbackendmax
+
+If a digit, the maximum number of parallel
+L<git-http-backend(1)> processes to allow for cloning this
+particular inbox.
+
+If an alphanumeric value starting with a lowercase alphabetic
+character is specified, the inbox will use a L</NAMED LIMITER>
+which can be shared by multiple inboxes.
+
+Default: 32 (using a default limiter shared by all inboxes)
+
 =item publicinbox.<name>.coderepo
 
 The nickname of a "coderepo" section associated with the inbox.
@@ -169,6 +181,53 @@ Default: none
 
 =back
 
+=head2 NAMED LIMITER (PSGI)
+
+Named limiters are useful for preventing large inboxes from
+monopolizing (or overloading) the server.  Since serving git
+clones (via L<git-http-backend(1)> can be memory-intensive for
+large inboxes, it makes sense to put large inboxes on a named
+limiter with a low max value; while smaller inboxes can use
+the default limiter.
+
+=over 8
+
+=item publicinboxlimiter.<name>.max
+
+The maximum number of parallel processes for the given limiter.
+
+=back
+
+=head3 EXAMPLE WITH NAMED LIMITERS
+
+	; big inboxes which require lots of memory to clone:
+	[publicinbox "big1"]
+		mainrepo = /path/to/big1
+		address = big1@example.com
+		httpbackendmax = big
+	[publicinbox "big2"]
+		mainrepo = /path/to/big2
+		address = big2@example.com
+		httpbackendmax = big
+
+	; tiny inboxes which are easily cloned:
+	[publicinbox "tiny1"]
+		mainrepo = /path/to/tiny1
+		address = tiny1@example.com
+	[publicinbox "tiny2"]
+		mainrepo = /path/to/tiny2
+		address = tiny2@example.com
+
+	[publicinboxlimiter "big"]
+		max = 4
+
+In the above example, the "big1" and "big2" are limited to four
+parallel L<git-http-backend(1)> processes between them.
+
+However, "tiny1" and "tiny2" will share the default limiter
+which means there can be 32 L<git-http-backend(1)> processes
+between them.
+
 =head1 ENVIRONMENT
 
 =over 8
-- 
EW


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* [PATCH 0/6] more minor cleanups and doc updates
@ 2019-01-31 10:51  7% Eric Wong
  2019-01-31 10:51  7% ` [PATCH 4/6] doc/config: user documentation for limiters Eric Wong
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ results
From: Eric Wong @ 2019-01-31 10:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: meta

Always more work to do :x

Eric Wong (6):
  inbox: drop psgi.url_scheme requirement from base_url
  qspawn: documentation updates
  config: tiny cleanup to use _array() sub
  doc/config: user documentation for limiters
  doc/config: document "replyto" configuration knob
  doc: remove completed TODO items

 Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 TODO                                  |  5 --
 lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm             |  2 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm              |  4 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/Qspawn.pm             | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
 lib/PublicInbox/ViewVCS.pm            |  3 +-
 t/solver_git.t                        |  2 +-
 7 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

-- 
EW


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Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://80x24.org/public-inbox.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).