Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:08:24 -0400 From: Pablo Mora Hinojosa <bidjan@gmail.com> To: Pablo Mora <bidjan@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limit bandwidth 'make fetch' Message-ID: <44636F88.7000107@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060511112429.273F4B81E@shodan.nognu.de> References: <cf841d6b0605101826l229b8561hd5c8cf0f1ebb4b38@mail.gmail.com> <20060511112429.273F4B81E@shodan.nognu.de>
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Frank Steinborn wrote: > Pablo Mora wrote: >> how i can limit bandwidth when i using 'make fetch' (make install in Ports)? >> >> thanks in advance. > > You could use the following in your make.conf to use wget (which is > capable of limiting bandwith) in your make.conf: > > FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/wget --limit-rate=20k # Limits to 20k > DISABLE_SIZE=YES > > > DISABLE_SIZE is mandatory for wget, because it would get "-S <size of > the file to fetch>" otherwise, which is only supported by fetch. > > HTH, > Frank > Thanks Frank for your time. excellent tip! regards.
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