Trickle : limit your application bandwidth
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| Software version | 1.07 |
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| Operating System | Debian 7 |
| Website | Trickle Website |
| Last Update | 06/05/2013 |
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1 Introduction
trickle is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper. It can run in collaborative mode (together with trickled) or in stand alone mode.
trickle works by taking advantage of the unix loader preloading. Essentially it provides, to the application, a new version of the functionality that is required to send and receive data through sockets. It then limits traffic based on delaying the sending and receiving of data over a socket. trickle runs entirely in userspace and does not require root privileges.
2 Installation
 aptitude
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aptitude install trickle |
3 Usage
To use it, it's really easy. Simply add a command prefix with desired max bandwidth :
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trickled -u 10 -d 20 firefox |
Here, the maximum upload is set to 10k and upload to 20k.
