[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Add and document the 'low_speed_limit' option.

[James Antill]

On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 09:04 -0400, Zdenek Pavlas wrote:
> >  Given that it pairs with "timeout", random guesses for other names:
> > 
> > limitout - maybe too small and kind of ugly?
> > timeout_limit - shows pairing, limit what?
> > timeout_persec - would everyone understand what persec means?
> > timeout_bytes - would everyone understand that it's per second?
> > 
> > ...can anyone else think of better names?
> > 
> >  Also does anyone think we should change the default from 1?
> 
> On second thought, I'd rather NOT add that option, only change
> the LOW_SPEED_LIMIT setting in urlgrabber to some reasonable
> value, say 1k.
> 
> When a mirror crawls below 10kBps, it's hardly usable.  1k still 
> leaves some 1:10 margin.. And we keep partial file on timeouts,
> so no big deal- retry/next mirror resumes DL anyway.

 ACK.

 The only reason I could think that might be bad is if we still have a
user or two that is on a modem ... they get like 4k/s max. Meh.