On 02/25/2014 11:39 AM, Chris Jack wrote: > I've been doing some large copies using cp and sometimes annoying the sys > admins around here by using large amounts of network bandwidth. nice does not > make any significant impact especially as I'm often running cp on a PC with > nothing much else running. > > Can I request that a throttle option is added to cp to allow the copy process > to proceed more slowly and hence use less network bandwidth,
Personally I don't think such options should be in each tool, since by its nature this is a global resource sharing problem, and thus the options/logic are better in locations with broader scope. Now there are such options in some commands, including rsync, which might handle this case for you. thanks, Pádraig.
