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Re: how to set network io priority for a process?



On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:41:56PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Try lftp.  I know of no better ftp client.  But it is command-line, which is
> > just as well: the transfer engine is well cared for, and not a secondary
> > thing to the GUI.
> 
> I've got lftp installed but haven't tried it.  I will.  However, I would
> have thought that wget would be the cat's meow since its what
> debootstrap uses.  Perhaps they only use it because its small.

wget is for script use.  lftp is for interactive use :-)

And AFAIK curl is supposed to be better than wget for script use, but I
won't go into that topic.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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