On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:46:51PM +0100, RS wrote: > >From: David Cantrell Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 23:37 > >I'd like to rate-limit get_iplayer so that other things on the same > >machine that are also talking to the internet don't run like stunned slugs > >in treacle. > >Second, I'm not using Linux. > You don't say which non-Linux operating system you are using. Your > description doesn't correspond with any version of Windows, 32 bit or 64 > bit
Yes, it does. This would affect Windows just as much as any other OS. > I have used except maybe Windows 3.1. Here downloading HLSHD with > get_iplayer at speeds up to 80Mbit/s on an elderly 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo with > 4GByte of RAM in 64 bit Windows 10 Home and a 10/100 LAN card gave a CPU > usage of between 20% and 52% and memory usage barely above background. How > much RAM have you got? CPU and RAM are not the limiting factors. Network bandwidth is. Other stuff is slowing down because it's waiting to send or receive packets. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer