On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:05:21 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network down so much > that I can't do much of anything else that wants to get to the internet, > either on the machine running aptitude or any other machine on the lan. > Is there anyway that I can slow aptitude down so it doesn't monopolize > the entire bandwidth?
Apt(itude) should respect the following configuration setting: Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "7"; // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate (I never tried this myself, I just copied it from /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
