On Wednesday 09 January 2002 01:17, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Hello apache wizards. > My PLF site is victim of his own success :-) > As it is a rather old machine, running an old version of FreeBSD, too many > people downloading simultaneously too many packages make the server freeze. > Is there a way in apache to enforce global bandwith use limits or > simultaneous connexion, and thus protect it ? I know FTP server allow this > kind of stuff to protect from hammering.
Don't be lazy, RTFM! There are at least two ways in the Apache config file, one specifically to deal with the issue, one less obvious (and probably more) or you could consider adding more RAM. Cheers; Leon
