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...lter.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000..795c7b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/filters/rate/nbdkit-rate-filter.pod @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +=head1 NAME + +nbdkit-rate-filter - limit bandwidth by connection or server + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + + nbdkit --filter=rate PLUGIN [PLUGIN-ARGS...] + [rate=BITSPERSEC] + [connection-rate=BITSPERSEC] + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +C<nbdkit-rate-filter> is a filter that limits the bandwidth that can +be used by the server. Limits can be applied per connection and/or +for the server as a whole. + +=head1 EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item nbdkit --f...

For virt-v2v we have been discussing how to limit network bandwidth. The initial discussion has been around how to use cgroups to do this limiting, and that is still probably what we will go with in the end. However this patch gives us another possibility for certain virt-v2v inputs, especially VDDK. We could apply a filter on top of the nbdkit plugin which limits the rate at which it copies

...in batch mode (that is, password and passphrase queries are not allowed). */ --- 91,114 ---- /* This is set to non-zero if IPv6 is desired. */ int IPv6 = 0; + /* Protocol (1, 2) to pass to ssh. */ + int protocol = 0; + + /* Show transfer rate in bits/sec rather than bytes/sec. */ + int bitspersec = 0; + /* This is set to non-zero to enable verbose mode. */ int verbose_mode = 0; /* This is set to non-zero if compression is desired. */ int compress_flag = 0; ! /* This is set to zero if the progress meter is not desired by default. */ ! #ifdef DEFAULT_NO_PROGRESS ! int showprogr...