Getting Apache to play 'nice'

[Waldher, Travis R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Knecht [mailto:mknecht at controlnet.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:17 AM
> To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Getting Apache to play 'nice'
> 
> 
> Hi,
>     Can Apache be taught to play 'nice'? Here's the scenario. 
> I've got 
> Apache running on a machine at my house that I also do email 
> on. I'm in 
> the office and want to do two things:
> 
> 1) Go to a web page on this machine and download a file. 
> Easy. The web 
> page is set up to show me the contents fo a aspecific directory so I 
> browse there and start the download.
> 
> 2) While the download is progressing I want to read email, so 
> I attempt 
> to ssh into the machine. ssh barely responds to me typing my 
> password. I 
> try to open Evolution but the application takes minutes to 
> come up, if 
> it comes up at all.
> 
> 3) The instant the file download completes Evolution responds quickly.
> 
>     Is this some sort of opportunity for using nice with 
> Apache? I don't 
> want simple web page display to be slowed down by other processes on 
> this machine, but I don't want such high priority being given to file 
> downloads either.
> 
>     Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
> 
> With best regards,
> Mark

What type of machine and how much memory?

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