Re: Mod_throttle - is this really what I need?

[SpArTaK <spartak@comcast.net>]

I tried the below and yeilds no results it the file downloads at maximum speed 
and then locks out the web site from bieng accessed again due to the 
mod_throttle lock for too much downloaded or soemthing. I have spend many 
hours trying to find out how to set a limit on the bandwidth used and have 
found some configs that DO NOT WORK and very little info on why this is so 
cryptic. Can someone out there plese give us some more info on how to use 
this to limit "stuff" in apache any examples or sources of information except 
the /usr/share/doc/appache-common/index.htm file would be helpfull thanks in 
advance!

-- Vladi

On Thursday 06 February 2003 12:27 pm, dwokfur@dc.sote.hu wrote:
> Greetings to debianer apachers,
>
> My aim was to limit the bandwith to my apache web server. According to the
> descriptions I figured out, that mod_throttle is the tool I probably
> looking for. So I RTFMed, and tried to set it up. Here are the lines
> important from this point of view pasted out from my apache config:
> LoadModule throttle_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_throttle.so
>
> # Throttle
> <IfModule mod_throttle.c>
>    ThrottleMaxDelay 10
>    ThrottlePolicy None
>    <Location /throttle-status>
>        SetHandler throttle-status
>    </Location>
> </IfModule>
>
> <Directory /var/www/throttle>
>    ThrottlePolicy Speed 50 1
> </Directory>
>
> The result. Throttle-status reflects the config I set up correctly. But
> when I download a big file from the /throttle directory, it comes with 120
> to 600 kbytes/sec depending on the actual network usage between the two
> places. Then the directory becomes unavaiable for a long time.What did I
> miss? I configured 50 kbytes/sec! It doesn't take effect for the first
> connection and it makes the directory unavail? How does it makes sense?
> I've tried different policies (Original, Speed, Volume), and also tried
> ThrottleClientIP with the same results.Has anyone managed to do this for
> his/her first connecion? What did I do wrong? Did I miss an important
> option
> (EnableThrottleFromTheVeryBeginning)?
> I wanted traffic shapeing. Is this module really for bandwidth limiting?
> Because if it behaves correctly as I see, I can say, that this is only a
> request delayer, not a throttler. Is there an apache module for this
> purpose (limit a directory to 50 kbytes/sec)? I'm sticked to debian.
> LimitIPConn works fine, although.
>
> Thank you 4 your help,
> Dw.