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The rate of data transfer. Bandwidth usually refers to Internet but it can also apply to other systems like the motherboard.

The rate of data transfer. Bandwidth usually refers to Internet but it can also apply to other systems like the motherboard.

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How to limit network bandwidth?

We are hosting an application on remote server. We need to test it with a limited network bandwidth (for users with bad Internet access). Can I limit my internet bandwidth? For instance: 128 KB per second. This question focuses on system-wide or…
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How can I limit the bandwidth used by a process?

I have a CentOS 5.7 server that will be backing up its files nightly. I am concerned that visitors to the various sites that the server hosts will experience degraded performance while the backup is transferring across the network. Is it possible to…
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Is there a top-like command that shows the network bandwidths and file accesses of running processes

For example, we'd like to see: PROCESS IF TX RX FILE(regular) R/W prog1 eth0 200kB/s 12kB/s -- -- wlan0 12kB/s 100kB/s -- -- -- -- -- …
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Who pays for the storage and bandwidth of repositories?

When I do a yum update or apt-get update, my machine is hitting several servers and downloading several packages. I would imagine that those servers are handling millions of similar requests on a daily basis. Who pays for the maintenance,…
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Find out network traffic per IP

We have one central server which functions as an internet gateway. This server is connected to the internet, and using iptables we forward traffic and share the internet connection among all computers in the network. This works just fine. However,…
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What does the process /usr/libexec/packagekitd do?

This process keeps hogging my bandwidth: What does this process do? Is it safe to kill it? Is is safe to remove the package as a whole( to prevent it from starting up ever again) Or should I just prevent it from automatically running in the…
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Limiting a specific shell's internet bandwidth usage

I want update my linux in one shell but by default wget or axel in updater use all the bandwidth. How can I limit the speed in this shell? I want other shells to have a fair share, and to limit everything in that shell – something like a proxy! I…
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speedtest-cli: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

On 3 machines I get: $ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/speedtest-cli", line 11, in load_entry_point('speedtest-cli==2.1.2', 'console_scripts',…
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What is the IPsec bottleneck in Linux?

I am trying to compare the performance of several network security protocols between two hosts connected in Gigabit Ethernet. My goal here is to see if I can saturate my bandwidth, and if not, what is the limiting factor. with SSL, I can reach 981…
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Is there a tool that can monitor bandwidth usage of a single process?

I've found a nice monitor which allows me to log a variety of runtime data of a single process. I'm looking for an equivalent that does the same for bandwidth usage. Ideally, the command should look like bwmon --pid 1 --log init.log. Is there such?…
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Is there a way to throttle git while it's cloning a repo?

Is there a way to tell git to only use so much bandwidth while cloning a repo? I may have multiple applications - each of which demands different network speeds. Is there a way to tell git to do this? I only want to do it for this session, not every…
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Rate limit network but allow bursting per TCP connection before limiting

We have a Cisco router which allows for rate limiting (they call it policing) but permitting bursting on a per-TCP connection basis. For example, we can cap the bandwidth at 50mbit but the cap won't be imposed until 4 megabytes have been…
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How to see the total bandwidth a process has used since it was started?

I am currently watching some process on my server and want to see how much bandwidth it has used in total since it has been started. I don't want to know its current usage, nor does nethogs / nload help me.
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How do I get the current bandwidth speed of an interface from the terminal?

I want to get the current Bandwidth of an interface say "eth0" from the terminal. It better be as simple as possible. Say up 10 dn 30. Instead of giving out a lot of text like "vnstat" does. Edit: I need this for a command line program…
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Redirect all non-local traffic to a socks proxy

Is it possible to redirect all non-local traffic to a socks proxy? so, for example i have: 4 computers (clients A-D: 10.0.0.1-4 or dhcp) 1 computer with 2 network cards (gateway-server, eth0: 10.0.0.254, eth1: 192.168.1.1) 1 computer with 2…
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