another fedora release...

[warlord-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org (Derek Atkins)]

Quoting Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org>:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>>> In somewhat related news, but on the bittorrent side, just for fun 
>>> I set the
>>> max_upload_rate to 0 (which, in classic computer 
>>> scienceunrestricted) after I
>>> got the x86_64 image and seeded to see how much actual upload bandwidth
>>> Verizon gives me.  It's been doing a pretty steady 200-220KB/s (about
>>> 1.5Mb/s).  It doesn't take long to get into the GB range of 
>>> uploaded bytes at
>>> that rate...
>>>
>>> I need to go back and figure out how much traffic-in-a-month they consider
>>> 'abusive' so I know when to shut it down...
>>
>> I'm only serving 20KB/s on each of the i386 and x86_86 DVD isos...
>> (I have no idea how to change the running bittorrent-curses setting)
>
> That's the client I use too.  Just add "--max_upload_rate X" (where X is in
> KB/s; defaults to 20, 0 means unrestricted; I now see that I got distracted
> and sent that first email in the middle of editing it, sorry )

And how do I do that without stopping and re-starting the client?
I know I can re-set it on the command line if I stop and restart the
client, but then my stats get lost.  What I don't know is how to
change the setting from the keyboard while the curses application
is running.

> Matt

-derek

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