On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 10:34:31PM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> lukem@karybdis 5> ./obj.i386/ftp -T get,5k,2k karybdis:biggun
> Get xfer rate throttle: on; maximum: 5120; increment 2048.
>  [...]
> 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'biggun' (65536000 bytes).
>   0% |                                     | 20480      5.01 KB/s  3:32:41 ETA^C
> 
> if, on the above session, we do kill -USR1 on the ftp process, the
> rate will jump to 7k/s (5k/s + 2k/s):

  I was going to say "what about decreasing the rate via USR2",
when I UTSL'd, so I figure Luke forgot to mention:

  If you want to _reduce_ the rate, send ftp one or more USR2 signals.
  
  Completely cool!

  Brian