On 05/07/2012 05:09 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote: > On 05/06/2012 07:53 PM, Dr. Blunt wrote: >> ...is there a way to know when a YUM is downloaded that >> a BX reboot is necessary for the changes to take effect? >> Perhaps at some point when the line says: Complete! >> it could say: Complete! A reminder a reboot is required... > > The only reason to reboot would be to load a new kernel. > > >> ...is there a way to limit the bandwidth during the download >> it seems the default is the max BW allowed. I have a T1 line >> and the seems to jump right near the 156Kbps just wondering >> if there is a throttle command I can give? > > ---------------- From 'man yum.conf' -------------------- > throttle Enable bandwidth throttling for downloads. This option can be > expressed as a absolute data rate in bytes/sec. An SI prefix (k, M or G) > may be appended to the bandwidth value (eg. '5.5k' is 5.5 kilobytes/sec, > '2M' is 2 Megabytes/sec). > > Alternatively, this option can specify the percentage of total bandwidth > to use (eg. '60%'). In this case the bandwidth option should be used to > specify the maximum available bandwidth. > > Set to '0' to disable bandwidth throttling. This is the default. > > bandwidth Use to specify the maximum available network bandwidth in > bytes/second. Used with the throttle option (above). If throttle is a > percentage and bandwidth is '0' then bandwidth throttling will be > disabled. If throttle is expressed as a data rate (bytes/sec) then this > option is ignored. Default is '0' (no bandwidth throttling). > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > So you would need to set bandwidth and throttle. > these parameters are not in yum.conf, just add them to the end of the > parameter list in /etc/yum.conf > \Oops you may set only throttle, read above.
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