Re: Streaming and a slow client

This is a huge pain in my neck. We stream/deliver mp3s through mod_proxy and if you've got some guy on a 14.4 dialup downloading a 10meg mp3, the backend server gets a connection tied up the whole time.

It's tricky though. For cgi accellerators, you can rely on your tcp buffer size to pull in the whole document. However, you can't buffer 10 megs in ram because you'd run out of memory with just a handfull of streams. What's needed is some sort of disk based buffering mechanism.

Would something like this be useful for the distribution? I've been playing with mods like this on the side, if you guys want I might be able offer a patch to accomplish this via a config directive.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:58:38PM -0400, Chuck Murcko wrote:
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> On Wednesday, August 29, 2001, at 12:29 PM, Ian Holsman wrote:
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> > one of our developers over here came up with a interesting question.
Received on Thu Aug 30 16:58:58 2001