Updates using idle bandwidth

[Stewart Adam]

On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 16:10 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> 
> man yum-updatesd.conf does not specify if its possible to set a bandwidth limit 
> on this only.  Is it possible to have yum-updatesd use a bandwidth limit but not 
> have it set on yum when run manually?
> 
> I'm not clear on whether the 'throttle' and 'bandwidth' configuration would 
> apply to yum-updatesd.  It would still not be a dynamic adjustment but if users 
> knew how this worked it might be a good enough solution.
> 
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One problem I see with this is that bandwidth statistics from are reset when
you reboot the machine. Unless you keep the machine up all the time it will lose track
of the exact amount of bandwidth used up. Maybe another daemon will need to keep track of
this?

Stewart