At 07:57 PM 3/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
>will this work with ihave feeds
Yes, it will. However ihave feeds often use multiple channels, and the
limit is 'per channel' so if the other
end is sending 4 streams you need to set max_speed to 1/4 the desired value.
ChrisP.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: NetWin Support Auckland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 2:59 PM
>To: Matt F
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Question about incoming news
>
>
>At 06:19 AM 3/2/01 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >i have a couple of feeds and a couple of peers. Some send faster than
> >others and some are hogs that take up to much bandwith....Is there a
> >serring to control the speed at which news ccomes in from a feed and a
> >setting to set how fast it goes out?
>
>Yes there are settings but it depends on what type of feed you have, and
>throttling feeds is a fairly
>random way of reducing bandwidth use as it will result in missed items.
>It's usually better to
>block a large group completely as loosing parts of multi part messages
>makes them all useless,
>use tellnews showgroups to see the high volume groups.
>
>Anyway the main setting you want goes in dnews.conf
> max_speed 100000
>
>That would limit all incoming connections to 100K bytes per second.
>
>However you would have to disable thread input
> thread_in false
>
> ChrisP.
