-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Jim Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I think there is still a case for attempting percent limiting. I >> agree with your point that we can not discover the full bandwidth of >> the link and adjust to that. The approach discovers the current >> available bandwidth and adjusts to that. The usefullness is in >> trying to be unobtrusive to other users. > > The problem is that Wget simply doesn't have enough information to be > unobtrusive. Currently available bandwidth can and does change as new > downloads are initiated and old ones are turned off. Measuring > initial bandwidth is simply insufficient to decide what bandwidth is > really appropriate for Wget; only the user can know that, and that's > what --limit-rate does.
So far, I'm inclined to agree. For instance, if one just sticks "limit_percent = 25" in their wgetrc, then on some occasions, Wget will limit to far too _low_ a rate, when most of the available bandwidth is already being consumed by other things. Regardless of what we decide on this, though, I like Tony L's suggestion of some summary data at completion. He had already suggested something similar to this for a proposed interactive prompt at interrupt. I'm thinking that there are a lot of other little "nice-to-haves" related to such a feature, too: someone might want Wget to save previous download rates to a file, and average them up across invocations, and base a percentage on this when called upon to do so. Basically, it smells like one of many possible hacks to perform on --limit-rate, which makes it a good candidate for a plugin (once we have that infrastructure in place), rather than Wget proper. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHDUlH7M8hyUobTrERCLbrAJ0eKAHly5C46dGpJVuGsJLseYSU9gCfW9H7 C2e8R7BF9rcQ7UXHKHLV6bk= =I/eA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
