pacman is too fast?

SIGTERMer · 2009-04-27 09:08:46

To be honest, i never thought i speed was going to be a problem.

i usually update my system at work but each time i try to update it, our connection slows down to a crawl. i don't mind, but my co-workers (... and my boss) do. pacman doesn't seem to provide a '-t' option (at least, it's not in the man page). is there anyway i can slow down pacman?

thanks

Allan · 2009-04-27 09:12:22

You can look at the XferCommand in pacman.conf and use a download client that supports limiting.

Pierre · 2009-04-27 09:20:15

Maybe you should talkt to the netadmin, too. Normally your router should care about a fair bandwith management.

toad · 2009-04-27 09:32:23

Allan wrote:

You can look at the XferCommand in pacman.conf and use a download client that supports limiting.

cool!

SIGTERMer · 2009-04-27 11:25:59

Allan wrote:

You can look at the XferCommand in pacman.conf and use a download client that supports limiting.

exactly what i needed! --limit-rate should do the job. thanks

Pierre wrote:

Maybe you should talkt to the netadmin, too. Normally your router should care about a fair bandwith management.

why waste such an opportunity? >=)

cactus · 2009-04-27 16:48:51

Pierre wrote:

Maybe you should talkt to the netadmin, too. Normally your router should care about a fair bandwith management.

Network/system admins generally don't like doing things that are 'one-off', especially something which users can certainly manage themselves. At least..none of the ones that I know or work with.

SIGTERMer · 2009-04-28 03:08:27

cactus wrote:

Pierre wrote:
Maybe you should talkt to the netadmin, too. Normally your router should care about a fair bandwith management.
Network/system admins generally don't like doing things that are 'one-off', especially something which users can certainly manage themselves. At least..none of the ones that I know or work with.

the connection i'm using isn't "official". i'm using my boss's personal router (with permission of course) which the admins have no control over. furthermore, i'm guessing that the router is connected directly to the root of our network since the normal network has all sorts of security filters whereas the router i'm connecting to is only protected by a simple passphrase. MAJOR security hole i know, but he's the boss.

the bottom line: i can update my system fast.. assuming i get up early

Xyne · 2009-04-28 04:45:01

I was going to suggest powerpill as a joke (because it maxes most people's bandwidth instead of throttling it) but you actually could set the max rate for the download in the aria2 section of the config file. If you have access to a lot of bandwidth when no one else is around, you can change the limit as you need it to make the most of the bandwidth. If you only want to throttle the bandwidth though, there would be no point in using powerpill.

SIGTERMer · 2009-04-28 05:19:42

Xyne wrote:

I was going to suggest powerpill as a joke (because it maxes most people's bandwidth instead of throttling it) but you actually could set the max rate for the download in the aria2 section of the config file. If you have access to a lot of bandwidth when no one else is around, you can change the limit as you need it to make the most of the bandwidth. If you only want to throttle the bandwidth though, there would be no point in using powerpill.

use powerpill at work? i'll get killed for sure

*edit: has anyone noticed my excessive use of smilies at the end of each post. guess i'm a happy fellow*

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Xyne · 2009-04-28 05:31:40

SIGTERMer wrote:

use powerpill at work? i'll get killed for sure

I know, that's what it was a joke at first

Then I read this

SIGTERMer wrote:

the bottom line: i can update my system fast.. assuming i get up early

and I thought you could buy a nehru jacket jumpsuit, a white fluffy cat, a high-backed black rotatable chair, shave your head and then steeple your fingers as you watch powerpill suck up the company's bandwidth in the twilight before dawn.

SIGTERMer · 2009-04-28 05:50:28

that's just too tempting to resists... wait! just remembered, they open the office around 7am. that gives me a 1 hour window to download stuff

still, one hour is good.

whoops · 2009-04-28 09:58:45

You also can p.e.:

a) Hide yourself under your desk to get locked in the last day of every month so you got 8 hours starting at 00:00 to waste the company's entire monthly traffic for a small private project called "I'm making a backup of the Internet and sending it to the moon in case something happens to earth" (stoopid humans - everyone knows you shouldn't have ALL of your backups on the same planet!).

b) Install a proxy on your Desktop... although I've never done so, I think probably configured it can limit your BW & connections by time, internet connection location, maybe even depending on what the router says "others" want/need (if you can access that somehow).

toad · 2009-04-28 10:16:11

I'd go with option a) - you just _know_ it makes sense!

SIGTERMer · 2009-04-28 11:46:23

i'll go with A. now what was the syntax of that command again...
wget -r -l 0 [what do i put here?]

anyways, thanks for the help guys

Knute · 2009-04-30 11:43:36

Hrmmmmm..... [thinking] unattended update[/thinking]

(time passes)

[thinking] hot blonde... beach[/thinking]

(time passes)

[thinking] oh yeah! cron![/thinking]

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