Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:58:36PM -0500, "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > Apt(itude) should respect the following configuration setting:
> > 
> > Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "7";  // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate

  [snip]

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

  Does Ubuntu install an aptitude cronjob?

> 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.

  aptitude -o Acquire::http::DL-Limit=<whatever> <arg>...

  Daniel