From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 9: 5:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF2D41562F for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA09174; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 02:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:22:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Donald Burr Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Any way of throttling back cvsup? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Donald Burr wrote: > I have cvsup updating my local CVS repository several times a day. > Unfortunately, it seems that cvsup is sucking up almost all of my > available bandwidth (256K down/64K up ADSL, soon to be 768K/128K), > bringing all my other network activity (downloads, etc.) to a standstill. > > Is there any way of throttling back cvsup's bandwidth usage to at least > give me a *little* bit of bandwidth to play with? :) try dummynet, it can throttle bandwidth via ipfw rules. "man dummynet" you cvsup several times a day? -Alfred > Please reply via email also (if possible), Thanks! > -- > Donald Burr *NEW!* FreeBSD Dev. | FreeBSD: The > WWW: http://www.Powered-By.AC/ *NEW!* ICQ #16997506 | Power to > Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | Serve! http:// > Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | www.freebsd.org/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message