Re: Per-Application up/download limit in userspace

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, bgrpt@toplitzer.net wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Short: Is there an application to limit the amount of data
> downloaded by an application like trickle does it for bandwidth?
>
> Long: I'm using one of these vserver providers which sets a
> limit on the amount of data for up- and downloads.
> I want provide some bandwidth to the Debian project and
> use torrent to share the new etch cds. Is it possible to
> stop the torrent after 10 GB upload? I cannot use in-kernel
> traffic shaping, because this is not possible in the vserver.
> Or is there another way to do this?
>
>
> Helmut

Check out tc, it's part of the iproute package.

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