The phrase "as not to overwhelm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when explaining a reason for taking a particular action to avoid causing excessive stress or confusion.
Example: "I provided a simplified version of the report as not to overwhelm the team with too much information at once."
Alternatives: "to avoid overwhelming" or "so as not to overwhelm".
Because those patches are often fairly large files, organizations tend to distribute them in stages so as not to overwhelm the central servers providing the patches.
Furthermore, surgical antibiotic prophylaxis should be administered in sufficient doses (amount and duration) so as not to overwhelm the host's defenses or permit the emergence of microbial resistance, while ensuring that the antibiotic is present in the blood serum and tissues during the entire time the wound is open and at risk for infection (18).
The roofline will be kept low so as not to overwhelm the landmark.
(He limits the number of adults in the examination room, so as not to overwhelm the babies and their parents).
Mr. Sanders proposed to render the NYC in outline, so as not to overwhelm the other letters.
Both mignonette and cocktail sauces were wisely kept mild, so as not to overwhelm the delicate flavors of the mollusks.
And it helps the two computers manage the rate of packet traffic, so as not to get overwhelmed.
In this case, trading partners triggered their own steel protection, but only so as not to be overwhelmed with imports.
Would Parliament be elected on a one-person, one-vote basis, or would minorities (including Mr. Assad's Alawites, assuming for a hypothetical moment that they could agree to this) need special legal protections — as in neighboring Lebanon — so as not to be overwhelmed by the Sunni majority?
Senior aides in the Bush war room, run by Steve Schmidt, a veteran Republican communications aide, insisted on vetting any information to be fed to Mr. Drudge so as not to annoy and overwhelm him with items he might find unworthy.
But it is also designed by and for people with IQ's somewhere in the altitude of Wolfram's — some work will need to be done dumbing it down a few hundred IQ points so as to not overwhelm the average consumer with answers that are so comprehensive that they require a graduate degree to fully understand.
