Re: limit speed of file transfer

[Rudi Starcevic <tech@wildcash.com>]

Hi,

An option may be to use SSH with RSYNC instead of SCP.
The Rsync command has a bandwidth limit option.

I use it like this:

rsync -avz --bwlimit 10 -e ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir /this/dir/

Check the 'man' pages for more info on the 'bwlimit' option.

HTH
Regards
Rudi.

Micah Wedemeyer wrote:

>Hi,
>
>My system consistently locks up on file transfers across the LAN.  When
>transferring a file to it using scp, it dies after less than 5 seconds.
>However, if I use it to download a file from the Internet (using wget),
>it does just fine.
>
>I have heard that my motherboard (a Via Epia MII) has DMA problems and
>that high Ethernet traffic is known to lock them up.  My theory is that
>the Internet connection is slow enough to not hit whatever magic
>threshold causes the crash.  So, I was hoping to find a way to limit the
>speed of transfers with scp and ftp so that they also don't lock up the
>machine.
>
>I asked on a few message boards, and they all mentioned iptables.  I've
>never used it before, and am a total noob when it comes to networking
>stuff.  So, I was hoping that the people on this list could point me in
>the right direction of where to start.
>
>To sum up:  I need a way to limit the speed of incoming file transfers
>using ftp or scp.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>Micah
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