On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Dennis Wicks <w...@mgssub.com> 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? > > I have already tried using ionice but it didn't make any noticeable > difference. > > I am running lenny on a P4 2.x GHz, 100 mps lan to Shorewall and a 768kbs > link to the Inet. You may be interested in this.
http://www.go2linux.org/traffic-shaping-with-linux And if you have more than one Debian PC on that connection you may also be interested in: http://www.go2linux.org/debian-ubuntu-package-proxy-server apt-cacher can be configured to use only an specific amount of bandwidth, Hope that helps. regards, -- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using Gentoo, Debian and Ubuntu) http://feeds.feedburner.com/go2linux http://www.go2linux.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
