From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 11:56:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (BROCCOLI.GRAPHICS.CORNELL.EDU [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 330EA15163 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:56:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA175712928; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:55:28 -0400 Message-Id: <199906151855.AA175712928@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nathan Ahlstrom Cc: Joe Gleason , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: limited pipe In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:49:04 CDT." <19990613204904.A14095@winternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:55:28 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Does anyone know of a program that will pipe from stdin to stdout but at >> specified rate? >> >> This is for sending backups over the network at a limited rate without >> relying on dummynet. > >I seem to recall that the amanda backup programs has provisions for doing >this built into it. You may want to look into that. >http://www.amanda.org/ No, this is incorrect. You are presumably thinking of Amanda's "netusage" parameter, but this is only used by the scheduler as it's deciding how many dumps to run concurrently (from all backup clients combined). Once a dump is started it runs as fast as it can. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message