[l008com]

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I run a hotilne server. I don't have many visitors, or many files, but I probably average about one download constantly 24 horus a day.

I run a web site too. It gets a bunch of hits, but probably only a few hits are simultanious. The page also has alot of big grpahics and audio files.

That page is far more important than the hotline server, but i still wanna run them both, the problem is my web page takes forever to load becuase hotline is steeling the bandwidth.

What I need is a "regulator" that will let hotline have 'normal' amounts of bandwidth when apache is idle. Then when my web site gets a hit, hotline's bandwidth will be slowled to a crawl while my web server get to dominate the line. Every other service i'd like to stay as is, keeping the same equal/normal/fair share size they have.

Someone had suggested to me that they thing this ability might be in OSX somewhere. Has anyone heard of this?

[jtc]

look into something called dummynet, I think it's in BSD's firewall, but I've never tried it out.

[l008com]

That program only works as a router, regulating bandwidth to different computers. I need something that can do it to different programs on a single OSX computer. And I also need "prioritization" not fixed speed limits.