[Re: [lug] Apache bandwidth control?]

[Justin]

Ya I wanted to avoid the kernel traffic shaper. I'll look further on
apache.org for the mod_throttle. Thanks.

Justin

"Michael J. Pedersen" <marvin at keepthetouch.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:28:06PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:51:59PM -0600, Justin wrote:
> > >Is there anyway to limit the amount of bandwidth each client connection
can
> > >use? For instance if a person connects to a site and wants to download a
5 meg
> > >file, instead of getting 40-60k a sec or whatever the pipe is capable of
they
> > >are limited to a max of say 10k a sec? Is this possible? Thanks for any
help
> > >in advance.
> > 
> > There is the "shaper", which will allow you to set up rate limits on
specific
> > routes.  This is a standard part of the kernel, and requires some
user-space
> > tools to configure.  It seems to work well enough.  It will work on a
site-wide
> > basis, not a user basis though.
> > 
> > I seem to recall an apache module for doing some sort of bandwidth
limitation,
> > try looking on apache.org and/or freshmeat.
> 
> Even though I had no luck with them over 2 years ago, that doesn't mean
much.
> I tried the kernel shaper, and got frustrated. The apache module,
> mod_throttle, worked well, but increased CPU load to unusable levels for my
> employer. We dropped both of them shortly after that.
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