[tcannon]

I'm double posting, sorry.

It's really weird to have these settings to cripple your load balancer, which already is an idea that gives me an involuntary shudder, and to cap it off the idea is that this is somehow a performance hack.

I posit a different idea. Trust the fact that web servers are written by folks who actually realized that their code would be on the internet, serving up web pages, and that some thought has gone into optimizing things already. Artificially shaping traffic and guessing that things run faster because you just figured it would is why ops people will not give you access to machines in production.

Crank the load balancer up to 11. If your code can't handle traffic, don't break the rest of the network to protect it from traffic. Fix the back end problems.