Hello,

this sounds either like a limitation that should be documentation in the module readme, or a small bug that could be fixed.

You could open an issue on our tracker about it, or even better, submit a pull request.

Cheers,

Henning

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From: sr-users <sr-users-bounces@lists.kamailio.org> On Behalf Of Duarte Rocha
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2022 2:31 PM
To: Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <sr-users@lists.kamailio.org>
Subject: [SR-Users] Pipelimit needs restart to reload values

Greetings,

I've been using the pipelimit module and the pl_check function to control users rates in my proxy. 

if (!pl_check("$var(UserID)", "TAILDROP", "$var(UserRate)")) {

     pl_drop();

     exit; 

}

In this case  $var(UserID) is the pipe and  $var(UserRate) is the maximum rate.

The value of the rate is retrieved on every call via query to a DB. 

If I change the UserRate value to 0 CPS on the DB calls are not rejected unless they go over 1 CPS. However, if I restart Kamailio all calls are correctly rejected. 

Why does this happen? Can I change this behaviour?

Cheers,

Duarte