On Tuesday 21 October 2003 03:47 pm, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 09:43 10/21/2003, you wrote:
> >I played around with rsync sometime ago and remember that it has an option
> >for
> >limiting bandwidth. I don't know if it really works, or how good it works,
<snip>
> This is going to be useless for you when transferring smaller files or
> filesets. It is, however, a godsend when rsync'ing 300MB for example while
> trying not to destroy productivity at the office. Note that the setting IS
> NOT in Kbps (kilobits per second), it is in KILOBYTES per second. So, using
> "--bwlimit=8" will attempt to limit transfers to no more than 8 KBps which
> in effect is nearly 70 Kbps. Using "--bwlimit=64" by mistake will result in
> rsync happily consuming nearly 600 Kbps of BW if it is available.
Ah.. this explains it. I need to learn reading man pages more carefully.
You asked a question, I *tried* to help, but in turn you enlighten me. How
'bout that?
Thanks.
RDB
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