On September 1993 plus 3696 days James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:31, s wrote: >> On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:06 am, James Sparenberg wrote: >> >> > >> > for the life of me I can't get the switch to work. >> > --max_upload_rate 8 keeps giving me an error saying that I have too >> > many parameters. I'm trying trickle right now to see if I can >> > throttle it that way. you are right though... at first I was doing >> > about 7kbps both ways and then the upload jumped to 30kbps which >> > had me maxed out. >> >> yep, I got that too. I ended up editing the >> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent/download.py file. >> >> hth, >> -s > > 2 questions... did it work? Where in the file?
It works, I did it too after s mentioned it. It's on line 78
('max_upload_rate', None, 0,
'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),
You change the first 0 to 13 or whatever you want and it works. Just
don't pass the --max_upload_rate switch to the command anymore after
the change.
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