another fedora release...

Matthew Gillen me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org
Wed Jun 10 11:49:36 EDT 2009


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 )

Matt





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