throttling

[Webmaster+BOfH <st...@max.hkust.se>]

Are there any plans of supporting bandwith limiting
as an apache standard module?

Throttling perhaps generally is better done in the
router, but it's hard to get that to work with
NameVirtualHosts...

I believe throttling is supported in IIS4 and I do
*not* want to use that crap.
(some PHBs might beg to differ...)

I've tried the mod_bandwidth from the contrib
tarball, but I cannot get decent performance out
of it (I never got more than 50k/sec no matter
how high I cranked up the limit, compared to
800k/sec w/o throttling)

That module seems to have been developed under
1.2bX, so it might do something horribly wrong
talking to the 1.3 core...


/magnus

Re: throttling

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Webmaster+BOfH wrote:

> Are there any plans of supporting bandwith limiting
> as an apache standard module?

No, but it's another application of i/o layering which should be easier in
2.0.

On the other hand, you could run a kernel which supports it... or a
firewall which supports it.  Such as linux.

Dean

Re: throttling

[Mark J Cox <ma...@awe.com>]

> I've tried the mod_bandwidth from the contrib tarball, but I cannot
> get decent performance out of it (I never got more than 50k/sec no
> matter

There have been several other attempts to do a throttling module; see also
http://www.bigrock.com/~mlovell/throttle/ and
ftp://ftp.cohprog.com/pub/apache/module/mod_bandwidth.c (both also for
1.2).  None of them are ideal though.

Mark