: Strange behaviour with Apache mod_ratelimit I'm trying to use mod_ratelimit, but it's exhibiting some odd behaviour. Initially, my configuration was: <Virtualhost> ... <Directory /var/www/public>

@Murray432

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I'm trying to use mod_ratelimit, but it's exhibiting some odd behaviour.

Initially, my configuration was:

<Virtualhost>
...
<Directory /var/www/public>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All

SetOutputFilter RATE_LIMIT
SetEnv rate-limit 250
</Directory>
...
</Virtualhost>


I've also tried:

<Virtualhost>
...
SetOutputFilter RATE_LIMIT
SetEnv rate-limit 250
...
</Virtualhost>


and

<Virtualhost>
<Location>
...
SetOutputFilter RATE_LIMIT
SetEnv rate-limit 250
...
</Location>
</Virtualhost>


I was expecting the 8 MB file I was downloading to take about 30 seconds. It was done in an instant.

I've tried several values for rate-limit and used wget to time them:

rate-limit | download speed
-----------+---------------
250 | 440 MB/s
100 | 440 MB/s
50 | 440 MB/s
30 | 20 kB/s
25 | 20 kB/s
10 | 6 kB/s
1 | 500 B/s


This is apache 2.4 running on Ubuntu 14.04

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