On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Rudy Moore wrote:

> At first I figured I was just saturating the pipe so my ssh packets couldn't
> get through. So I tried limitting the bandwidth with the --limit-rate
> command, but it didn't seem to work. Is there a way of explicitely saying,
> "leave some bandwidth free" rather than just setting 25K or whatever as your
> download speed?
>
> So even with a limit-rate command it still seems to lock up. The program
> successfully downloads about 10M before the lock-up occurs, though that
> amount is random.

This doesn't sound curl-related at all. It shouldn't lock up in the first
place, and it certainly shouldn't do it when you limit the rate. I think you
have a network-related problem.

> I'm using curl 7.10.3, zlib 1.1.3 under redhat.

curl 7.10.3 is extremely old. We've fixed hundreds of bugs since.

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