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Re: Overall Rate limit for multi

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:08:46 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Mark Hindley wrote:

> I want to limit the Overall bandwidth. Setting CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE
> on the easy handle, of course, only limits the speed of that handle. With
> multiple concurrent connections, the desired bandwidth is sometimes
> exceeded.

> Is there/is there likely to be support for limiting overall bandiwth at the
> multi level?

No, there's currently no such functionality - only as you say per individual
transfer. I figure the perhaps tricky part of adding such a capability would
be to make sure all involved connections would get a fair share of the limited
connection...

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2009-08-27