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x/time: "bursts" of the RateLimiter don't work as documented #52618

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remster opened this issue Apr 29, 2022 · 2 comments
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x/time: "bursts" of the RateLimiter don't work as documented #52618

remster opened this issue Apr 29, 2022 · 2 comments
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remster commented Apr 29, 2022 •
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What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.16.6 linux/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

I don't know
x/time at:

golang.org/x/time v0.0.0-20220411224347-583f2d630306 h1:+gHMid33q6pen7kv9xvT+JRinntgeXO2AeZVd0AWD3w=
golang.org/x/time v0.0.0-20220411224347-583f2d630306/go.mod h1:tRJNPiyCQ0inRvYxbN9jk5I+vvW/OXSQhTDSoE431IQ=

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output
$ go env
GO111MODULE="on"
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/home/remek/.cache/go-build"
GOENV="/home/remek/.config/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOINSECURE=""
GOMODCACHE="/home/remek/go/pkg/mod"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/remek/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GOVCS=""
GOVERSION="go1.16.6"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/home/remek/go/src/github.com/airmap/platform/go.mod"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build3207674770=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"

What did you do?

wrote this test:

package util

import (
	"fmt"
	"testing"
	"time"

	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
	"golang.org/x/time/rate"
)

func TestRateLimiter(t *testing.T) {
	rlUnderTest := rate.NewLimiter(10, 1)
	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
		fmt.Printf("i:%d\n", i)
		require.True(t, rlUnderTest.Allow())
		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
	}
}

What did you expect to see?

The test to pass.

What did you see instead?

The test failed on the 2nd iteration

=== RUN   TestRateLimiter
i:0
i:1
    /home/remek/go/src/github.com/airmap/platform/airmap/util/ratelimtter_test.go:16:
        	Error Trace:	ratelimtter_test.go:16
        	Error:      	Should be true
        	Test:       	TestRateLimiter
--- FAIL: TestRateLimiter (0.01s)
FAIL
FAIL	github.com/airmap/platform/airmap/util	0.013s

The documentation says: "Burst is the maximum number of tokens that can be consumed in a single call to Allow, Reserve, or Wait, so higher Burst values allow more events to happen at once."
As you can see; at no point I call Allow with anything different than 1.
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seankhliao commented Apr 29, 2022 •
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It implements a "token bucket" of size b

you've drained the limiter and it hasn't refilled

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remster commented Apr 29, 2022 •
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Thanks. That had me connect the dots. Documentation still needs improving:

NewLimiter returns a new Limiter that allows events up to rate r and permits bursts of at most b tokens.

say here that b is also the initial credit of the bucket. b hasn't got a meaning earlier and specifically: It implements a "token bucket" of size b

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