A howtoforge.com article on installing mod_cband bandwidth limiting module for Apache 2. Great! I've been waiting for some bandwidth limiting module to step up (and for someone to write a nice clear installation article.) This is one of the things I feel like I lost by going with Apache 2 over 1.3 - the older version had much better bandwidth limiting modules. But hopefully that is no longer the case. This gets moved way up towards the top of the list.
Wow, that was easy. Very cool. You can specify, among other things, a max download rate per client. The only weird thing is that the instructions in this tutorial have this rate specified in the config file as kb/s which to me would mean kiloBITS per second - but in reality, even when you put, say, '100 kb/s' it actually limits the rate to 100 kiloBYTES per second. I would have thought that would be 100 KB/s. But whatever. Maybe this is a general misunderstanding on my part.
generally, B=byte, b=bit, as in Mbps or MB/s
That's what I thought.
Do you ever run into people who use MiB and GiB?
No. But I have seen kbyte = 1000 bytes and Kbyte = 1024 bytes.
Yeah, I see that confusion all the time. I guess that's what KiB is supposed to clarify. But if you don't hear anyone use it I'm guessing no one uses it.
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- jim 6-01-2006 8:51 pm
Wow, that was easy. Very cool. You can specify, among other things, a max download rate per client. The only weird thing is that the instructions in this tutorial have this rate specified in the config file as kb/s which to me would mean kiloBITS per second - but in reality, even when you put, say, '100 kb/s' it actually limits the rate to 100 kiloBYTES per second. I would have thought that would be 100 KB/s. But whatever. Maybe this is a general misunderstanding on my part.
- jim 6-04-2006 4:50 pm
generally, B=byte, b=bit, as in Mbps or MB/s
- mark 6-04-2006 8:14 pm
That's what I thought.
Do you ever run into people who use MiB and GiB?
- jim 6-04-2006 8:31 pm
No. But I have seen kbyte = 1000 bytes and Kbyte = 1024 bytes.
- mark 6-04-2006 8:51 pm
Yeah, I see that confusion all the time. I guess that's what KiB is supposed to clarify. But if you don't hear anyone use it I'm guessing no one uses it.
- jim 6-04-2006 9:08 pm