Jonathan Bringhurst on 4 Dec 2009 12:01:36 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Throttling network bandwidth usage ala nice or ionice...


Was throttled mentioned?

http://www.intrarts.com/throttledcli.html

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com> wrote:
> Edmond (and other PLUG folks),
>
> You were asking the other day for a way to throttle network IO
> during downloads, similar to the way the "nice" command does for
> CPU usage -- run full bore unless something else is competing
> for the bandwidth.  There's another command called "ionice" that
> may be close to what you want.  It throttles disk IO, not network
> IO, but:
>
> 1. Since the download is coming across the network and going
>    to the disk, that may have the effect you want.
> 2. Since there's already a nice and an ionice, maybe there's
>    one for network traffic also.
>
> Just a thought...
>
> --Fred
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