Bug#750546: ITP: sluice -- rate limiting data piping tool

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2015, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Since my original email, I have added more features and more
> sophisticated rate limiting features, namely:
> 
> * constant delay time between each write (rate limiting by changing
> buffer sizes)
> * constant buffer sizes, (rate limiting by changing write times)
> * rate limiting by changing buffer sizes and write times
> * -s option to tweak rate limiting throttling
> 
> The -s option controls the damping behaviour, which can be tweaked for
> different kinds of variable rate inputs. Some analysis of this can be
> seen on the sluice project page:
> 
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/sluice/
> 
> I wonder if this justifies sluice being reconsidered?

Sure it does.  I can see those two rate-limiters being useful for people
playing with network testing.

Can you also take a look at pv and see if any of its features are worthwhile
for sluice?

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