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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-08-14 16:49:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-08-14 16:51:22 +0200 |
| commit | ac91c202aef8ad2aa5d12766ed998ee842e47567 (patch) | |
| tree | bca3336a168b96c23eefaf69594487a91b7a09a4 /docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE.3 | |
| parent | 974461443466bd334727a8c03ff41905ebaa4516 (diff) | |
| download | curl-ac91c202aef8ad2aa5d12766ed998ee842e47567.tar.gz | |
docs: clarify MAX_SEND/RECV_SPEED functionality
... in particular what happens if the maximum speed limit is set to a
value that's smaller than the transfer buffer size in use.
Reported-by: Tomas Berger
Fixes #5788
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE.3 index e4ced8643..b47063842 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -28,12 +28,18 @@ CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE \- rate limit data download speed #include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE, - curl_off_t speed); + curl_off_t maxspeed); .SH DESCRIPTION -Pass a curl_off_t as parameter. If a download exceeds this \fIspeed\fP +Pass a curl_off_t as parameter. If a download exceeds this \fImaxspeed\fP (counted in bytes per second) the transfer will pause to keep the speed less than or equal to the parameter value. Defaults to unlimited speed. +This is not an exact science. libcurl attempts to keep the average speed below +the given threshold over a period time. + +If you set \fImaxspeed\fP to a value lower than \fBCURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE(3)\fP, +libcurl might download faster than the set limit initially. + This option doesn't affect transfer speeds done with FILE:// URLs. .SH DEFAULT 0, disabled |