> [private response to limit list clutter] or not. oops.
>... > Note though that my patch *does* dominate the bandwidth for about 15 seconds > to measure the available bandwidth before it falls back. On my > network, it seemed > to take a few seconds before enough bytes were transferred to get a reasonable > measure. What I'd actually like to do is fold the argument into the limit-rate option, like so... --limit-rate 20K means limit rate to 20KBps --limit-rate 20% means limit average rate to 20% of initial measured bandwidth I wonder if it would make sense to cache the measured rate so that the second time you limit by percentage it skips the measurement step and thus the temporary domination. I guess then I'd also want to provide a --measure-rate option to force re-measurement when network changes. Are there any reasons not to cache like that? Does wget currently save any state someplace or would I need to implement that whole bit? Tony