On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 14:59 +1300, Matthew Gregan wrote: > At 2004-11-20T12:17:21+1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > My family is getting concerned about my bandwidth hogging :-( > > It looks like you've already found a solution for your BitTorrent > client, but I thought I'd mention a handy little tool I use quite a bit. > It's called trickle[0] and for a very simple case you use it like so: > > # trickle -d 10 -- apt-get dist-upgrade > > ...where '-d 10' will limit the maximum download speed apt-get can > attain to 10kB/s. trickle can be used with almost any dynamically > linked binary. > > [0] http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle > > Cheers, > -mjg
excellent, i'll play with that in due course... -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
