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+labels:
+- 'Stage-Beta'
+summary: 'Impose rate-limits on a MUC'
+...
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+This module allows you to control the maximum rate of 'events' in a MUC
+room. This makes it useful to prevent room floods (whether malicious or
+accidental).
+
+Details
+=======
+
+This module limits the following events:
+
+-   Room joins
+-   Nick changes
+-   Status changes
+-   Messages (including private messages)
+
+The limit is for the room as a whole, not individual occupants in the
+room. Users with an affiliation (members, admins and owners) are not
+limited.
+
+Configuration
+=============
+
+Add the module to the MUC host (not the global modules\_enabled):
+
+        Component "conference.example.com" "muc"
+            modules_enabled = { "muc_limits" }
+
+You can define (globally or per-MUC component) the following options:
+
+  Name                 Default value   Description
+  -------------------- --------------- ------------------------------------------
+  muc\_event\_rate     0.5             The maximum number of events per second.
+  muc\_burst\_factor   6               Allow temporary bursts of this multiple.
+
+For more understanding of how these values are used, see the algorithm
+section below.
+
+Algorithm
+=========
+
+A certain number of events are allowed per second, given by
+muc\_event\_rate. An event rate of 1 allows one event per second, and
+event rate of 3 allows three events per second, and 0.5 allows one event
+every two seconds, and so on.
+
+Obviously MUC conversations are not exactly steady streams of events.
+Sometimes multiple people will talk at once. This is handled by the
+muc\_burst\_factor option.
+
+A burst factor of 2 will allow 2 times as many events at once, for 2
+seconds, before throttling will be triggered. A factor of 5, 5 times as
+many events for 5 seconds.
+
+When the limit is reached, an error response will be generated telling
+the user the MUC is overactive, and asking them to try again.
+
+Compatibility
+=============
+
+  ------- -----------------
+  Trunk   Works
+  0.8     Doesn't work`*`
+  ------- -----------------
+
+`*` This module can be made to work in 0.8 (and *maybe* previous
+versions) of Prosody by copying the new
+[util.throttle](http://hg.prosody.im/trunk/raw-file/fc8a22936b3c/util/throttle.lua)
+into your Prosody source directory (into the util/ subdirectory).