On Thursday 27 April 2006 19:15, Joshua Slive wrote: > I'm not an expert in this topic, but what you want doesn't sound > feasible. In the Apache httpd architecture, threads or processes get > to listen on the accept queue and grab new requests as they come in. > If they read a request and decide it is low priority and they don't > want to handle it, there is really no way for them to shove it back on > the queue. They are stuck with it and must either serve it or dump > it.
Just to throw in a couple more thoughts ... If you want to prioritise *only* by client address - without reference to the HTTP request, you'd use a connection-level filter. Take a look at traffic- shaping modules such as mod_evasive or mod_cband. If you're happy to affect the outcome of a request (c.f. mod_load_average, which enables you for example to service static requests normally but return HTTP BUSY in response to expensive requests when the server load is too high) you can write a simple module that implements early hooks to inspect the request and determine its fate. If neither of the above is sufficient, then I have nothing useful to say, beyond the vague idea that a new MPM would probably be the most likely approach. Try the developer list. -- Nick Kew --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
