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batchicken
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Joined: 14 Feb 2004
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Location: New Zealand
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 Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:18 am Post subject: Howto Throttle emerge downloads |
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Emerge uses wget as a command to download everthing by default.
You can use the 'wget --limit-rate=7k' command to throttle your downloads to 7KB/s. Edit /etc/make.conf and alter the wget command to reflect the above. I got the commands from /etc/make.globals which has strict warnings to make changes to make.conf only...
Therefore copy the command...
Mine now looks like:
# Fetching command (5 tries, passive ftp for firewall compatibility)
FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget --limit-rate=7k -t 5 --passive-ftp -P \${DISTDIR} \${URI}"
RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget --limit-rate=7k -c -t 5 --passive-ftp -P \${DISTDIR} \${URI}"
Hope this helps someone...
Usefull so the rest of the family does not know that I am emerging another server :)
Last edited by batchicken on Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:14 am; edited 1 time in total |
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MaxDamage
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Joined: 03 Jan 2004
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Location: Oviedo, Spain
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:39 am Post subject: |
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Interesting  Very useful when having the mldonkey running in the background and want not one killing the other.
Other idea is still listen to internet music (www.di.fm) while downloading 
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