1TRICKLED(8) BSD System Manager's Manual TRICKLED(8)
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4 trickled — userspace bandwidth manager daemon
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7 trickled [-h] [-v] [-V] [-f] [-s] [-d rate] [-u rate] [-t seconds]
8 [-l length] [-p priority] [-c file] [-n path] [-N seconds]
9 [-w size]
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12 trickled is a userspace bandwidth manager daemon. trickled manages sev‐
13 eral trickle(1) sessions at a time, shaping across multiple sessions.
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15 The options are as follows:
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17 -v Increases the verbosity level (can be specified multiple
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20 -V Prints version.
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22 -f Runs trickled in the foreground.
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24 -s Uses syslog for all output (instead of stderr).
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26 -d rate Limit the download bandwidth consumption to rate KB/s.
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28 -u rate Limit the upload bandwidth consumption to rate KB/s.
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30 -t seconds Set smoothing time to seconds s. The smoothing time deter‐
31 mines with what intervals trickled will try to let the
32 application transcieve data. Smaller values will result in
33 a more continuous (smooth) session, while larger values may
34 produce bursts in the sending and receiving data. Smaller
35 values (0.1 - 1 s) are ideal for interactive applications
36 while slightly larger values (1 - 10 s) are better for
37 applications that need bulk transfer. This parameter is
38 customizable on a per-application basis via
39 trickled.conf(5). The default value is 5 s.
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41 -l length Set smoothing length to length KB. The smoothing length is
42 a fallback of the smoothing time. If trickled cannot meet
43 the requested smoothing time, it will instead fall back on
44 sending length KB of data. The default value is 10 KB.
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46 -p priority Set default priority to priority.
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48 -c file Use the configuration file file. This file must be of the
49 format documented in trickled.conf(5).
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51 -n path Set socket name to path. By default, trickled uses
52 /tmp/.trickled.sock.
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54 -N seconds Notifies user of total bandwidth consumption every seconds
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57 -w size Set peak detection window size to size KB. This determines
58 how aggressive trickled is at eliminating bandwidth consump‐
59 tion peaks. Lower values will be more aggressive, but may
60 also result in over shaping. The default value (512 KB) is
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64 trickled -u 10 -d 20
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66 Limit aggregate trickle(1) upload bandwidth consumption to 10 KB/s and
67 download consumption to 20 KB/s.
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70 trickle(1), trickled.conf(5), syslog(3), netintro(4)
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73 trickled has been developed by Marius Aamodt Eriksen ⟨marius@monkey.org⟩.
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75BSD February 27, 2003 BSD