Set maximum speed for scp
Is there a way to limit the speed of scp (or rsync)? I couldn't find any information in the man page, nor on the internet.
From the man page: -l limit Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s.
I'm not convinced the -l setting works properly with big values: On my RHEL6 system if see:
-l not specified
- Expected: Whatever the wan can handle
- Actual: 20 Megabytes per second
-l 8000
- Expected: 1 Megabyte per second
- Actual: 1 Megabyte per second
-l 80000
- Expected: 10 Megabytes per second
- Actual: 150 Kilobytes per second