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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2006-12-06 09:52:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2006-12-06 09:52:04 +0000 |
| commit | 393ddd6e1fcdabcf6bae2c092eac87e90605ebdf (patch) | |
| tree | ac335c960a750af3d3e8b8e7f2ac6bf7f0879bc2 /docs | |
| parent | 840e796aa9c12a94bec90ee2a0bd49ee3163deb1 (diff) | |
clarify --limit-rate somewhat: it might send away/receive chunks of date in
temporarily higher speeds than requested, but the given limiting is considered
"over time" and is an average
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 2e2b0f4de..0a85992e5 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -615,6 +615,10 @@ The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is appended. Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or M' makes it megabytes while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G. +The given rate is the average speed, counted during the entire transfer. It +means that curl might use higher transfer speeds in short bursts, but over +time it uses no more than the given rate. + If you are also using the \fI-Y/--speed-limit\fP option, that option will take precedence and might cripple the rate-limiting slightly, to help keeping the speed-limit logic working. |