Celejar wrote, on 2009-01-19 07:59:
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:05:21 -0600
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.
Others have posted various solutions, but for a generic and simple
solution to this sort of problem, look at trickle (apt-cache show
trickle).
Trickle can work, but I've had it cause aptitude to fail to download
some packages unless I hit q and gg again.
I like Florian's suggestion for /etc/apt/apt.conf:
Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "7";
Arthur (finding 6876 kbps downstream of ADSL considerably faster than
the 3 kbps downstream of a V.34 modem).
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