[LUCENE-8915] Document that RateLimiter's limits may be updated over time

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.3
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Atri Sharma
• Created: 15/Jul/19 07:16
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:48
• Resolved: 26/Jul/19 09:31

Description

RateLimiter does not allow dynamic configuration of the rate limit today. This limits the kind of applications that the functionality can be applied to. This Jira tracks 1) allowing the rate limiter to change limits dynamically. 2) Add a RateLimiter subclass which exposes the same.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #789