--- loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	2002/09/16 19:42:10	1.282
+++ loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	2002/09/16 20:09:47	1.283
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network
 # TCP networking package
 #
-# $Id: lonnet.pm,v 1.282 2002/09/16 19:42:10 albertel Exp $
+# $Id: lonnet.pm,v 1.283 2002/09/16 20:09:47 www Exp $
 #
 # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees
 #
@@ -348,6 +348,28 @@ sub delenv {
     return 'ok';
 }
 
+# ------------------------------------------ Fight off request when overloaded
+
+sub overloaderror {
+    my ($r,$checkserver)=@_;
+    unless ($checkserver) { $checkserver=$perlvar{'lonHostID'}; }
+    my $loadavg;
+    if ($checkserver eq $perlvar{'lonHostID'}) {
+       my $loadfile=Apache::File->new('/proc/loadavg');
+       $loadavg=<$loadfile>;
+       $loadavg =~ s/\s.*//g;
+    } else {
+       $loadavg=&reply('load',$checkserver);
+    }
+    my $overload=$loadavg-$perlvar{'lonLoadLim'};
+    if ($overload>0) {
+	$r->err_headers_out->{'Retry-After'}=$overload*30;
+        $r->log_error('Overload of '.$overload.' on '.$checkserver);
+        return 413;
+    }    
+    return '';
+}
+
 # ------------------------------ Find server with least workload from spare.tab
 
 sub spareserver {