Throttling uploads (incoming) traffic to nginx...

[Jason Kim]

I think it's important, because on gigabat LAN, if you upload a large file
the server file system goes up way high and is impractical. File system
writes are much more severe on performance than writes.

Also for users on high speed internet we've seen uploads of up to 8
Megabytes/sec which causes massive file system load, and noticably slow down
the whole server.
Lastly it would be helpful to block massive DOS attacks that upload large
files and cause file system load which our organization has actual have
happen.

Thanks,
Have a nice day.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Valery Kholodkov <
valery+nginxen at grid.net.ru <valery%2Bnginxen at grid.net.ru>> wrote:

>
> No, currently it's impossible with upload module. And I guess without as
> well.
>
> Does it really sound like a big problem? If it is reasonable, I'll include
> it into my TODO list.
>
> ----- "Jason Kim" <highclass99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I asked a similar question but no one answered and we keep failing
> > when
> > trying too, so I'm trying to ask again.
> >
> > Our organization is testing nginx,
> >
> > We noticed that the limit_rate directive works for data sent out from
> > the
> > server very well (downloads),
> >
> > But absolutely no limit seems to be set for the data sent into the
> > server
> > (uploads),
> >
> > Is there any way to allow a limit_rate for uploads too? And if not,
> > would
> > this be considered a bug to be fixed?
> >
> > We handle large uploads, and Upload Module seems perfect, but the
> > uploads go
> > at 100% full speed which we want too slow down due to server
> > load/file
> > system load.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Valery Kholodkov
>
>
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