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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d deleted file mode 100644 index 43ebf2c23..000000000 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. -SPDX-License-Identifier: curl -Long: limit-rate -Arg: <speed> -Help: Limit transfer speed to RATE -Category: connection -Example: --limit-rate 100K $URL -Example: --limit-rate 1000 $URL -Example: --limit-rate 10M $URL -Added: 7.10 -See-also: rate speed-limit speed-time -Multi: single ---- -Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use - for both downloads -and uploads. This feature is useful if you have a limited pipe and you would like -your transfer not to use your entire bandwidth. To make it slower than it -otherwise would be. - -The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is appended. -Appending 'k' or 'K' counts the number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it -megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. The suffixes (k, M, G, T, P) -are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G. - -The rate limiting logic works on averaging the transfer speed to no more than -the set threshold over a period of multiple seconds. - -If you also use the --speed-limit option, that option takes precedence and -might cripple the rate-limiting slightly, to help keeping the speed-limit -logic working. |