As I definitely should post more on my blog, I now try to start a new series: “Nice to know”. It will be a collection of interesting things I consider memorable but which don’t deserve their own blog-post.<\/p>\n
Trickle<\/strong><\/p>\n Tricke<\/a> allows you to limit bandwith for processes that do not support bandwith limitation out-of-the-box. It works by preloading and simulating the socket API. You use it as a wrapper when starting the process, like trickle -d 80 someapp<\/em>.<\/p>\n You can use it to limit rsync speed for instance (thanks to http:\/\/www.yak.net\/fqa\/404.html<\/a>): rsync -auvPe “trickle -d 80 ssh” user@host:\/src\/ \/dst\/<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n VMWare Tools and Kernel 2.6.24<\/strong><\/p>\n VMWare Tools out of the box do not install on kernel 2.6.24 (as used in Ubuntu 8.04 for instance). A possible solution<\/a> is described here<\/a>. It is based on using the open-source version of the VMWare tools (open-vm-tools<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I definitely should post more on my blog, I now try to start a new series: “Nice to know”. It will be a collection of interesting things I consider memorable but which don’t deserve their own blog-post. Trickle Tricke allows you to limit bandwith for processes that do not support bandwith limitation out-of-the-box. It … Continue reading “Nice to know – Volume 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,10],"tags":[20,48,190,226,26],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-software","category-sysadmin","tag-administration","tag-linux","tag-nice-to-know","tag-software","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}