[mb-devel] requests limit

[Aaron Cooper]

On 2-Apr-08, at 12:08 PM, Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have just received the following error message on the site while
> doing some voting:
>
>> Your requests are exceeding the allowable rate limit (13.0, limit  
>> is 13.0 per 10 seconds)
>> Please slow down then try again.
>
> I'm using the "enhanced voting" GM script, which I'm sure was the
> cause. The script allows the user to vote/approve/comment on a single
> page of edits, without opening new pages. This can cause a burst of
> accesses when pressing "apply", which must have triggered some
> protection. However, the burst is very short—at most ten edits can
> receive notes/approves at one time, and then you'll stop for a while
> to vote on the next page—so it shouldn't be a problem for the site.
> Also, I think the script actually reduces bandwidth usage, because it
> no longer needs to display the intermediate pages (eg, for approving),
> it can send directly the input.
>
> So, would it be possible to raise a bit the limits that trigger the
> error? I think it can't send more than 21 (at most 10 (approvals or
> cancels), at most 10 edit notes, and one request for the next page of
> edits) at one time. So bursts of less then 30 or so edits (at any
> speed) should be ignored, provided that there's a pause of at least a
> few seconds between them. What do you think?

I've never seen this while voting with the Enhanced Voting GM script  
but I have run into it often while opening up several artist pages  
from my subscription mails.  Maybe your Firefox runs faster than mine :)

-Aaron