On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:51:29AM +0000, Laur Ivan wrote:
> Hi all,
>> How can I cap an ongoing transfer? I have a wget going on and it gets whatever
> bw is available. is there any (preferably easy) way to cap it to a given
> value?
Theres an app called trickle which might do what you need:
bash-2.05b$ apt-cache show trickle
Package: trickle
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 96
Maintainer: Robert Lemmen <robertle at semistable.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.06-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1), libevent1
Filename: pool/main/t/trickle/trickle_1.06-4_i386.deb
Size: 35202
MD5sum: a67fc0a09838b316dc1e47c09a77a70c
Description: User-space bandwidth shaper
Trickle is a voluntary, cooperative bandwidth shaper. it works
entirely in userland and is very easy to use.
.
The most simple application is to limit the bandwidth usage of
programs.
--
Pete
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