NAME
Event::SlidingWindow - Count events that occur within a sliding window
SYNOPSIS
use Event::SlidingWindow ;
my $esw = new Event::SlidingWindow(30) ;
$esw->record_event() ;
my $cnt = $esw->count_events() ;
DESCRIPTION
Event::SlidingWindow allows you to create a time window of a fixed length and keeps track of how many events have occured wihtin that window as it advances in time. It was created for use in daemons in order to detect denial of service attacks.
AUTHOR
Patrick LeBoutillier, <patl@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2004 by Patrick LeBoutillier
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.