[gopher] Throttling gopher daemon is desirable

[Nuno Silva]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:03:40PM +0300, Kim Holviala wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2013, at 21:06, Jeff W <simple at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 
> > dave at 661.org wrote:
> >> I figure there hasn't been much call for throttling functionality for
> >> gopher daemons.  Today it would have been much appreciated.
> > 
> > WRT your recent experience, was it by chance someone at *.rr.com ?  I've
> > seen quite a bit of traffic from that domain recently.
> 
> 
> Even though I implemented throttling in Gophernicus I really don't see
> why we should actually use that? In the site I'm running for living
> we're getting about 3000 requests per second, and those are served
> with normal hardware any one of us could buy. So, requesting 10s of
> thousands of gopher resources shouldn't really tax anyone that hard
> especially since all the Gopher daemons I know are really lightweight.

I'd guess some people are in places where the internet link is charged
by the amount of data transferred, instead of a flatrate.

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