[Bio-Linux] Bandwidth Issue

[Tim Booth]

Hi Alec,

Is this because you have many BL boxes doing updates at once and
hammering the WAN, or do you want to just slow down one individual box?

In the former case, you probably want to deploy the apt-cacher-ng
package on a server machine to ensure that packages are only fetched
over the internet once and then just copied over the LAN from the cache.

In the latter case, search the manpage for apt.conf for "Dl-Limit" and
"Pipeline-Depth" which allow you to throttle bandwidth usage on any
machine.

Let me know if you need any more pointers on the above.

Cheers,

TIM

On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 14:29 +0100, Alec Colebrook-Clark wrote:
> Hi
> 
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> We have an issue at the moment where Biolinux will consume every bit
> of available bandwidth when it is downloading. This has huge impacts
> on the rest of the network. Is anyone else experiencing this? And does
> anyone have any idea how to cope/fix the issue?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alec
> 
>  
> 
> 

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