Traffic Shaping¶

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• Traffic Shaping
  • Description
  • Options
  • Selective traffic shaping plugin
  • Plugin options
    • Build it

Module: core

Description¶

Starting with 1.3.8, lighttpd supports limiting the bandwidth for a single connection or config context like a virtual host or a URL.

Options¶

connection.kbytes-per-second
Limit the throughput for each single connection to the given limit in kbyte/s
Default: 0 (no limit)

server.kbytes-per-second
Limit the throughput for all connections to the given limit in kbyte/s
Default: 0 (no limit)

If you want to specify a limit for a special virtual server use:

    $HTTP["host"] == "www.example.org" {
      server.kbytes-per-second = 128
    }

which will override the default for this host.

Note:

Keep in mind that a limit below 32kb/s might actually limit the traffic to 32kb/s.
This is caused by the size of the TCP send buffer.

Selective traffic shaping plugin¶

There is a small plugin (built-in since lighttpd 1.4.46 (#954)) to use selective traffic shaping on a per-connection base. You can e.g. use php and do:

 <?php
 header("X-LIGHTTPD-KBytes-per-second: 50");
 header("X-Sendfile: /path/to/file");
 ?>

to set the speed of the current connection.

Plugin options¶

speed.just-copy-header = "enable"
Use this on the frontend to just copy the header from the response to the request header (forward it to the backend)
Default: "disabled" (just use it)

speed.use-request = "enable"
Use this on the backend to fetch the speed from the request. This is not useful on the frontend, i think :)
Default: "disabled" (don't look in the request headers)

Build it¶

See the attached file for the most recent version of mod_speed. To build it, download a recent version (from where?) (see #954), place this file in the src directory and add it the following lines to your Makefile.am:

lib_LTLIBRARIES += mod_speed.la
mod_speed_la_SOURCES = mod_speed.c
mod_speed_la_LDFLAGS = -module -export-dynamic -avoid-version -no-undefined
mod_speed_la_LIBADD = $(common_libadd)