Re: Download speed limit

limiting speed by using sleep in your script is a very bad idea. for a 350 MB file, with a 20 KB/s limit the script would take aprox. 5 hours. you can see how this is totally wrong. even skyrocketing the timeout, it's not a good solution. Use a web server mod for dynamic bandwidth limiting. See http://www.topology.org/src/bwshare/README.html, maybe it will help you. Rangel Reale wrote:

Between 90 and 350 MB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lucas" <lists@cmsws.com> To: "Rangel Reale" <listas@rangelreale.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Download speed limit

Rangel Reale wrote:

Hello! For my application I need to limit the speed that my application sends data, in my case a binary file. I need to send the speed as a parameter, like: sendfile.php?speed=20000 Would send the file at 20kb/s (forgetting about real byte counts for this example). To send the file, I am doing:

    $fp=fopen($this->contentfile,"rb");
    while(!feof($fp)){
        print(fread($fp,1024*8));
        flush();
        ob_flush();
    }
    fclose($fp);

If after ob_flush I do a sleep(), I can limit the speed, but I would like to limit at the speed of the parameter. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Rangel

on average, how big are the files that you will be sending? -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,

       and some have greatness thrust upon them."

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