Forgot to add, yes, all 10000+ clients need to update during that 5
minute timeframe.
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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?
>
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