Rogelio wrote: > If I need to rate limit file transfers between to machines, what can I > do at the host-level within CentOS, and what might I need to "yum > install" in order to do? > > (For example, say I would like to rsync something, and then I would > like to make sure that I don't exceed, say, 10 Mbs.) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos rsync has a built in rate limiter. See the man pages for more details --bwlimit=KBPS limit I/O bandwidth; KBytes per second Other ways would be to utilize a firewall or switch with built in QoS to perform such tasks. I believe Netfilter supports this type of thing. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com