bandwidth limitations with apache

[Xterria]

hey, i'm using apache2.x for my webserver. The problem is, when a lot of people are using my website, it lags my other servers BAD. I've heard of modules like mod_throttle, but they're only for apache 1.3, not to mention linux. I'm using windows xp professional with my apache. Is there any other way i can set a maxrate-type bandwidth limitation? thanks

[Waldo2k2]

I think it can be done internally through the windows registry, try www.winguides.com
theres all sorts of registry tweaks there.

[Xterria]

I looked there, I searched under apache but couldn't find anything.
help?

[Waldo2k2]

no not apache, look through the keys for limiting network bandwidth in windows. Don't even let apache do it, it's not that stable on windows.

[adrianxw]

>>> it's not that stable on windows.

Mine has been running under XP for more then a year without obvious problems.

[Waldo2k2]

it's not that stable on windows compared to what it is on linux...and I don't mean to say that it's bad on windows, it's just that it's not neccessarily as stable to run a server on a windows box than on a linux box because, well, it's windows. I have no choice but to run it on windows here at school (yeah it's on xp too) but I've had to restart it probably 4 times in the last month because it freaks out and does something wrong....I'm running 2.0x so that could be contributing to it as well, but I needed that for more features too so I was kinda struck.

[Magos]

it's just that it's not neccessarily as stable to run a server on a windows box than on a linux box because, well, it's windows

Oh my god! Come with a real argument next time...

[Waldo2k2]

if microsoft doesn't release a set of patches every month of the year then some horrible virus sweeps through and cripples companies....good enough argument

[RoD]

advance used to use unix to manage they're computer's (every store is linked together, its a huge company), when they upgraded they went to win2k....ew

[Oluf]

a good sign that windows is not good for running as a server is that micosoft themselves run linux servers.....

[Waldo2k2]

>>linux servers

somehow I doubt that...i thought their main cluster was running server 03

[Tronic]

SOMEONE PUT OUT THE FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn you guys would think your 3 year olds or something..

If you want to limit traffic through apache I beleive theres some settings in the httpd.conf file that you can tweak to do that. If not bandwidth max cons per minute or something, I haven't needed to do this in a while.

[Waldo2k2]

>>SOMEONE PUT OUT THE FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>Damn you guys would think your 3 year olds or something..

what are you talking about?

[Xterria]

is it Maxpackets in the httpd.conf? i'm confused

[Waldo2k2]

that sounds about right...but incoming packet size makes a difference too in bandwidth...but I don't know if that has a .conf entry