Feature Request - Load Throttling

[martin langhoff]

Marc Perkel wrote:
> down under high load levels. Seems to me that it could be something 
> fairly easy to add to have it check the load levels and back down so as 
> not to slow down the system.

As jw indicated, it isn't such a great idea to put that into rsync 
itself. Instead, use the OS-supplied facilities.

Suggestions:
- nice/renice your rsync processes
- use your OS to apply resource constraints (ulimit, bsd resource 
limits, etc).

cheers,






martin