Re: [PLUG] per process bandwidth limitation?

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@toren.net>]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:51:23PM -0400, Malcolm wrote:
> I'm trying to work out if it's possible to limit bandwidth usage on a per 
> process level under linux, but haven't found anything in my searches so I 
> figured I'd ask here.

You may want to look into trickle [1].  It's an LD_PRELOAD hack, so there
are a few limitations you should be aware of -- for example, it will not
work on staticly compiled binaries, suid programs, etc.  Depending on your
particular application this may or may not be acceptable.

[1] http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle

HTH,
-mct

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/,\$_/xg;s/X/(0..7/g;s/P/print+/g;eval' #     Michael C. Toren <mct@toren.net>

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