[plug] Simple bandwidth throttling

[W.Kenworthy]

and gentoo's emerge uses a number of "fetch" programs like rsync and
wget which can be rate limited in the config files (works well on a
modem!)

I dont know much about apt - does it fetch itself or use a helper that
can be configured separately?

One problem I have found with wget, rsync (in particular) and QOS
(iproute2) type throttling is that they are bursty (send/get a "chunk",
wait a defined time then send/get another chunk so they produce the
desired throughput as an average.), so this may be a consideration.

iproute2 is very successful on iinet adsl.

BillK


On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 13:18 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:33, Matthew Lambie wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a simple app (if it's packaged for Ubuntu you get
> > cred++) that will allow me to throttle bandwidth in a similar way to
> > wget's "--limit=20k" capabilities? Perhaps I can pipe the dist-upgrade
> > command to it with a limit flag?
> 
> Well... <grin> URPMI has a --limit-rate switch. <duck> <run>
> 
> Cheers; Leon
>