Smoother bandwidth limiting
Max Kipness
mkipness at geniant.com
Sat Nov 8 00:23:05 EST 2003
> I rather like bwlimit... i suffer the same problem as Mikko
> in that I have a slow uplink. I haven't experienced his
> particular problem, though, and bwlimit seems to do its job well...
>
> Using some other networking tool or QOS just complicates the
> matter, and since rsync excels at doing large transfers over
> slow connections, bwlimit seems within the scope of rsync...
>
> So it's not perfect, nothing is... RSYNC would loose a lot
> of appeal if bwlimit got axed, at least for me...
I had some of these issues initially when using --bwlimit. I since
switched to true traffic shaping with CBQ. It works flawlessly as that
is it's job.
Max
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