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TRICKLE(1) General Commands Manual TRICKLE(1) NAME trickle -- a lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper SYNOPSIS trickle [-h] [-v] [-V] [-s] [-d rate] [-u rate] [-w length] [-t time] [-l length] [-n path] command ... DESCRIPTION trickle is a userspace bandwidth manager. Currently, trickle supports the shaping of any SOCK_STREAM (see socket(2)) connection established via the socket(2) interface. Furthermore, trickle will not work with statically linked executables, nor with setuid(2) executables. trickle is highly configurable; download and upload rates can be set sepa- rately, or in an aggregate fashion. The options are as follows: -h Displays help. -v Increases the verbosity level (can be specified multiple times). -V Prints version. -s Runs trickle in standalone mode, independent of trickled(8). -d rate Limit the download bandwidth consumption to rate KB/s. -u rate Limit the upload bandwidth consumption to rate KB/s. -w length Set peak detection window size to length KB. This deter- mines how aggressive trickle is at eliminating bandwidth consumption peaks. Lower values will be more aggressive, but may also result in over shaping. The default value (512 KB) is usually sufficient. -t seconds Set smoothing time to seconds s. The smoothing time de- termines with what intervals trickle will try to let the application transcieve data. Smaller values will result in a more continuous (smooth) session, while larger values may produce bursts in the sending and receiving data. Smaller values (0.1 - 1 s) are ideal for interactive ap- plications while slightly larger values (1 - 10 s) are better for applications that need bulk transfer. -l length Set smoothing length to length KB. The smoothing length is a fallback of the smoothing time. If trickle cannot meet the requested smoothing time, it will instead fall back on sending length KB of data. The default value is 10 KB. -n path Use trickled(8) socket path to communicate with trickled(8). By default, /tmp/.trickled.sock is used. EXAMPLES trickle -u 10 -d 20 ncftp Launch ncftp(1) limiting its upload capacity to 10 KB/s, and download capacity at 20 KB/s. SEE ALSO trickled(8), syslog(3), socket(2), netintro(4) AUTHORS trickle has been developed by Marius Aamodt Eriksen <marius@monkey.org>. BUGS Does not support executables utilizing kqueue(2). Does not support statically linked executables. FreeBSD ports 15.0 November 10, 2002 TRICKLE(1)
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