How to limit transfer-rate of an application

[Mariano Draghi]

El Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:04:07 -0700, Arnold Weber escribió:

> Hello,
> 
> is there an easy way to limit the download-rate of a simple application?
> Some programs (like wget) have controls to do that, but i think rsync
> (that i want to use) doesn't.
> 

Hi,

I think "trickle" might help.
Here's a good article about it:
http://debaday.debian.net/2007/05/30/trickle-a-lightweight-userspace-
bandwidth-shaper/

Regards,


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Mariano