Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:05:21 -0600
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.
Others have posted various solutions, but for a generic and simple
solution to this sort of problem, look at trickle (apt-cache show
trickle).
Celejar
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