Bug#692774: ITP: throttle -- bandwidth limiting pipe
]] Martin Steghöfer throttle copies the standard input to the standard output while limiting bandwidth to the specified maximum. This is useful to limit resources (bandwidth, CPU time,...) when using it together with programs that don't support throttling natively. Do we really need this? At least pv can do this too, including speed adjustments at runtime. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#692774: ITP: throttle -- bandwidth limiting pipe
To reply to Tollef's and Jonas' concerns: trickle, iprelay and shepard are socket-specific traffic shaping tools, whereas throttle is based on stdin and stdout. So it can be used in other contexts, where other tools are not applicable. But yes, you are both right, cstream (with the -t option) and pv (with the -L option) do the trick, too. So throttle doesn't add a really new functionality to Debian. And no, we don't *absolutely* need it in Debian. But we *can* have it at a low cost. The binary package will be tiny, the compilation happens within seconds and as updates don't happen very often and are not likely to change much of the tool's structure, package maintenance will be cheap, too. And throttle seems to be a more popular solution to common problems than the other tools mentioned. When I was searching the web for the solution of a problem, the answer in several places was throttle. So I finally compiled it from source. It would be nice to prevent other users from having to do this, too. I am aware of Debian's problem of having a huge amount of packages and rather few maintainers. So I understand your concerns. I just think that the (little) added value is worth the (very little) effort. Kind regards, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#692774: ITP: throttle -- bandwidth limiting pipe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Steghöfer mar...@steghoefer.de * Package name: throttle Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : James Klicman ja...@klicman.org * URL : http://klicman.org/throttle/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : bandwidth limiting pipe throttle copies the standard input to the standard output while limiting bandwidth to the specified maximum. This is useful to limit resources (bandwidth, CPU time,...) when using it together with programs that don't support throttling natively. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#692774: ITP: throttle -- bandwidth limiting pipe
Quoting Martin Steghöfer (2012-11-08 18:42:50) throttle copies the standard input to the standard output while limiting bandwidth to the specified maximum. This is useful to limit resources (bandwidth, CPU time,...) when using it together with programs that don't support throttling natively. How is this tool different from cstream, trickle, iprelay and shaperd? Kind regards, - Jonas signature.asc Description: signature
