[geeks] Traffic shaping w/Apache?

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Apr 16 14:43:22 CDT 2002


On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:40:10PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > Anybody know of a module/addon/whatever to do traffic shaping and/or
> > bandwidth limiting with Apache?
> Isn't that a networking problem, not an application problem?
> (i.e. what's Apache have to do with it, other than being your current
> bandwidth pig?)  :-)

Apache is the application that is sending data, yes...

> More seriously, how do you want to shape the traffic?  Per flow, or
> aggregate, or some combination?

I want to keep "total bandwidth used by apache" below <x>.  I want
other things unchanged (ssh, ftp, etc)...

Bill

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