On 2 Apr 2010, at 23:48, Anuradha wrote: > I want to limit the number of "particular" requests in apache > > For example > I have httpd running on my system. My webserver provides a upload and download service. > I want to configure appache in a way that at the max it can serve 100 uploads and 200 downloads not more than that. You can't. Well, you could write a module for it. If you can live with ballpark numbers, I'd suggest limiting the number of threads per process on a restricted task, rather than maintaining a global count. Or if this is about system load, consider something like mod_load_average. -- 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: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx