Download retries cap needed
by CollieJim from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4YDX8)
I got a notice from my ISP this morning telling me I has used 80% of my quota. Shock! I rarely use more than a third of it, so I don't check it very often.
I checked and found that something was going through 400MB/hour on an otherwise idle machine. The cause was Freshclam trying to download a signature file. The download would proceed to about 60%, display a Timeout message (even though I was getting 1MB/s), and retry. Endlessly.
If it were not for the ISP's message, my connection would have been reduced to 12KB(!) per second in 2 days when my quota was exhausted.
Is there a way to put a cap on this sort of thing?
I checked and found that something was going through 400MB/hour on an otherwise idle machine. The cause was Freshclam trying to download a signature file. The download would proceed to about 60%, display a Timeout message (even though I was getting 1MB/s), and retry. Endlessly.
If it were not for the ISP's message, my connection would have been reduced to 12KB(!) per second in 2 days when my quota was exhausted.
Is there a way to put a cap on this sort of thing?