On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_ratelimit.html >> Provides a filter named RATE_LIMIT to limit client bandwidth. >> The connection speed to be simulated is specified, in KiB/s > > compared with external "mod_bw.so" IMHO this is a design mistake > > * saying i have several virtual hosts > * my line has a capacity of 512 KB/Sec > * one of the virtual hosts starts to have high traffic and abuses my upstream > * "SetEnv rate-limit 256" limits each client to 256 KB/sec at it's own > * two of them abuse my upstream completly
It sounds more useful, and far more complicated, to limit the overall bandwdith. But mod_ratelimit does what it says. It's not fair to say whoever wrote it should have instead scratched the itch described above.
