Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:05:21 -0600, Dennis Wicks 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?
> 
> Apt(itude) should respect the following configuration setting:
> 
> Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "7";  // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate
> 
> (I never tried this myself, I just copied it from
> /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz.)
> 


Wonderful tip. I had been wondering about the bandwidth control for
aptitude downloads (and not anything else) for quite some time.

I put this in /etc/apt/apt.conf file:
// Options for the downloading routines
Acquire
{
  // HTTP method configuration
  http
  {
    Dl-Limit "10";        // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate
  };

};


and now aptitude download is limited to around that value in Kb/sec
(Kilobits/sec).

I think this will be most useful when aptitude downloads updates
automatically (usually in a Ubuntu machine).

However, while having this option in apt.conf, is there a method to
override or ignore this from aptitude command line? For example, I would
like to limit the download rate for automatic aptitude downloads which
happen in background but would like to use more bandwidth while updating
a system myself from the command line.

Regards.




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