Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network down so much that
> I can't do much of anything else that wants to get to the internet, either
> on the machine running aptitude or any other machine on the lan. Is there
> anyway that I can slow aptitude down so it doesn't monopolize the entire
> bandwidth?
>
> I have already tried using ionice but it didn't make any noticeable
> difference.
>
> I am running lenny on a P4 2.x GHz, 100 mps lan to Shorewall and a 768kbs
> link to the Inet.
You may be interested in this.
http://www.go2linux.org/traffic-shaping-with-linux
And if you have more than one Debian PC on that connection you may
also be interested in:
http://www.go2linux.org/debian-ubuntu-package-proxy-server
apt-cacher can be configured to use only an specific amount of bandwidth,
Hope that helps.
regards,
--
Guillermo Garron
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(Using Gentoo, Debian and Ubuntu)
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