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I would like to throttle a simple git pull using trickle. This seems like it should be easy: trickle -d 100 git pull, but when git shows its bandwidth rate, it still hovers around 3.3 MiB/s for me, much greater than the supposed maximum of 1000 KB/s.

I am discouraged by the fact that it looks like trickle hasn't been updated in 8 years, but I am hoping I can still resolve this problem.

Other random info that may prove helpful:

  • Fedora 20
  • trickle -V: trickle: version 1.07
  • git --version: git version 1.9.0
  • I also use hub, but I have tried with and without hub. I don't see any difference.
  • I use zsh.
  • ip addr:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: em1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 08:2e:5f:86:4b:8b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.142/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic em1 valid_lft 64050sec preferred_lft 64050sec inet6 2601:d:b700:679:a2e:5fff:fe86:4b8b/64 scope global noprefixroute dynamic valid_lft 216580sec preferred_lft 216580sec inet6 fe80::a2e:5fff:fe86:4b8b/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: wlo1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 4c:80:93:a0:d7:14 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Of course, I am more than happy to provide any other information. Thank you.

cg505
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  • What is trickle? In general, it is a good idea to add links to libraries and tools that aren't necessarily well known. As it stands, this looks like a question for [Super User](http://superuser.com/) or possibly [Server Fault](http://serverfault.com/), not Stack Overflow. – ChrisGPT was on strike Jun 29 '14 at 21:52

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Just tried it like this, and it worked - at least with a git clone, give it a shot.

Fedora 20 | trickle 1.07 | git 1.9.3

trickle -sd 100 git clone

And the -s stands for:

-s           Run trickle in standalone mode independent of trickled
flaky
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I found on freebsd that trickle didn't work cloning via the git protocol, but when did when cloning via HTTPS

FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE | git 2.4.5 | trickle 1.07

Ken Wilson
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    Welcome to SO! This isn't a terribly clear answer. Try to provide more explanation to your answers. And maybe examples. See [How to answer page](http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-answer) for help in improving your answer. – Madness Aug 15 '15 at 23:53
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fyi Trickle wont work with git protocol because trickle can only limit tcp connections. That's why it works for http

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