Re: --limit-percent N versus --limit-rate N% ?

2007-10-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/19/07, Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Also: does the current proposed patch deal properly with situations such as where the first 15 seconds haven't been taken up by part of a single download, but rather several very small ones? I'm not very familiar yet

Re: --limit-percent N versus --limit-rate N% ?

2007-10-19 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Also: does the current proposed patch deal properly with situations such as where the first 15 seconds haven't been taken up by part of a single download, but rather several very small ones? I'm not very familiar yet with the rate-limiting stuff, so I really have no idea. If

--limit-percent N versus --limit-rate N% ?

2007-10-15 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Okay, now that it's decided this thing will go in... I'm kinda leaning toward the idea that we change the parser for - --limit-rate to something that takes a percentage, instead of adding a new option. While it probably means a little extra coding,

Re: --limit-percent N versus --limit-rate N% ?

2007-10-15 Thread Matthias Vill
Micah Cowan wrote: I'm kinda leaning toward the idea that we change the parser for --limit-rate to something that takes a percentage, instead of adding a new option. While it probably means a little extra coding, it handily deals with broken cases like people specifying both --limit-rate and

Re: --limit-percent N versus --limit-rate N% ?

2007-10-15 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Matthias Vill wrote: I would appreciate having a --limit-rate N% option. So now about those broken cases. You could do some least of both policy (which would of course still need the time to do measuring and can cut only afterwards). Or

Re: --limit-percent N versus --limit-rate N% ?

2007-10-15 Thread Matthias Vill
Micah Cowan schrieb: Matthias Vill wrote: I would appreciate having a --limit-rate N% option. So now about those broken cases. You could do some least of both policy (which would of course still need the time to do measuring and can cut only afterwards). Or otherwise you could use a