Isn't doing anything

[benyanke]

I'm in the process of finding bandwidth shaping tools to use on a server-sync project, and I'm having trouble getting this to work.

I ran sudo trickled -d 250 -u 250 and my running SCP transfer still continued to chuck along at 100+ MB/s.

Any ideas?

[YuGiOhJCJ]

Same problem here with trickle 66551ad built from source code on Slackware64 14.2:

$ trickle -sd 200 git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Cloning into 'linux'...
remote: Counting objects: 5626857, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1330/1330), done.
Receiving objects:   0% (11382/5626857), 5.19 MiB | 662.00 KiB/s

I set a maximum download rate to 200 KB/s but the full bandwidth is used (662 KiB/s).
Why please?

[alglez]

I'm experiencing the same problem in Arch.

[DracoBlue]

trickle works only for non-forking processes. if you try with e.g. curl it works :)

[phil294]

trickle works only for non-forking processes. if you try with e.g. curl it works :)

No, unfortunately, this does not help. Tried wget, curl, and pacman -Syyu. The weird thing is, sometimes it is throttled, sometimes not (in my case, at least). Not sure what is going on here.