diff xml/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.xml @ 2014:6e66487c5756

Limit_req: document what happens on zone exhaustion (ticket #1133)
author Ruslan Ermilov <ru@nginx.com>
date Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:23:57 +0300
parents 469aebbd94d0
children 283b1e67eaa6
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--- a/xml/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.xml	Tue Aug 08 09:23:25 2017 +0300
+++ b/xml/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.xml	Tue Aug 08 09:23:57 2017 +0300
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 <module name="Module ngx_http_limit_req_module"
         link="/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html"
         lang="en"
-        rev="7">
+        rev="8">
 
 <section id="summary">
 
@@ -198,9 +198,12 @@
 64 bytes on 32-bit platforms and 128 bytes on 64-bit platforms.
 One megabyte zone can keep about 16 thousand 64-byte states
 or about 8 thousand 128-byte states.
-If the zone storage is exhausted, the server will return the
-<link id="limit_req_status">error</link>
-to all further requests.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If the zone storage is exhausted, the least recently used state is removed.
+Even if after that a new state cannot be created, the request is terminated with
+an <link id="limit_req_status">error</link>.
 </para>
 
 <para>