David & Louis, Thanks for the answers and tips. After I posted the original message I found some remarks on the Turkish and German packets. They aren't eating my bandwidth. The bursts last for about an hour and happened 5 times today. Peak is at 8 KB/sec (10%). The load on my system has doubled. Nothing to worry about yet ;-) I will read more about blocking abusive clients.
Jos > 1) You could go to the server admin page and set your connection speed to > 256K, you get less requests that way. It doesn't matter what your > real connection speed is. > > 2) You could also stop replying to abusive clients, at least that would > save you some output bandwidth. There are scripts available to do that in > the list archives I believe. > > -Louis _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
