[Bio-Linux] Bandwidth cont.

[Tony Travis]

On 12/07/13 13:59, Alec Colebrook-Clark wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> Ive been doing the downloads by sshing into the machine and using
> sftp or wget. I have already come across these limit options with
> little success but I shall investigate more. And thanks for the heads
> up on netstat. I have tried iftop but it just confirms its using all
> bandwidth (unless im using the tool incorrectly.)

Hi, Alec.

Have you tried nice'ing the download program?

  nice -n 19 sftp ...

To throttle at the hardware level, you could fit a 100Mbit NIC or
configure your switch to connect at 10/100Mbit instead of 1Gbit?

Bye,

  Tony.
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