Forgot to add, yes, all 10000+ clients need to update during that 5 minute timeframe. -- Matt Shields http://masnetworks.biz http://shieldsmedia.com (currently under construction) http://shieldsproductions.com (currently under construction) On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:37:02 -0500, Matt Shields <mattboston at gmail.com> wrote: > We have some custom software that is put out on our 6 > clustered(balanced) webservers. Every 5 minutes that software checks > into our server for a new version, if there is a new version it > downloads it (20MB file). This happens about 2-3 times per month. > Currently there are over 10000 clients that need to download the > update. Up until this past week we were able to handle the load and > this is putting a serious strain on our webservers. We were hoping > to throttle the amount of traffic that each of the webservers would > take and the bandwidth that each client consumes. > > Previously I've used Mod_Throttle for Apache 1.3 on other projects, > but on our new servers they are running Apache 2. So are there any > similar solutions for Apache 2? > > -- > Matt Shields > http://masnetworks.biz > http://shieldsmedia.com (currently under construction) > http://shieldsproductions.com (currently under construction) >