Trickle
trickle is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper, that either runs in collaborative mode (together with trickled) or in stand alone mode.
It works by preloading its own socket library wrappers, that limit traffic by delaying data.
Also trickle runs entirely in userspace.[1]
Contents
Installation
Install trickle from Official repositories.
Usage
If you are running the daemon (see below), just start any program with "trickle" in front of it:
trickle pacman -Syu
Otherwise also specify upload and download limit as well as other configuration options (see trickle(1) for more information):
trickle -d200 -u50 pacman -Syu
Modifying other systemd services
Copy the desired .service file from /usr/lib/systemd/system/
to /etc/systemd/system
and add
/usr/bin/trickle
in front of the ExecStart= value, eg:
ExecStart=/usr/bin/yourdaemon
changes to
ExecStart=/usr/bin/trickle /usr/bin/yourdaemon
In case you would like to use the standalone mode, also add the config options like described in the Usage section above.
Run this command after changing .service files:
systemctl --system daemon-reload
And now restart your daemon, it should have shaped bandwith now.
Daemon configuration
If you want to have application specific settings with trickled, create the optional /etc/trickled.conf
file as described in the trickled.conf(5) man page. For example:
[ssh] Priority = 1 Time-Smoothing = 0.1 Length-Smoothing = 2 [ftp] Priority = 8 Time-Smoothing = 5 Length-Smoothing = 20
Systemd integration
Create the following two files and customize them to your needs.
/etc/systemd/system/trickled.service
[Unit] Description=trickle bandwith shaper [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/trickled_systemd ExecStart=/usr/bin/trickled -u${TRICKLE_UP} -d${TRICKLE_DOWN} -w${TRICKLE_WSIZE} -t${TRICKLE_STIME} -l${TRICKLE_SLENGTH} -f Type=simple User=nobody Group=nobody [Install] WantedBy=network.target
/etc/conf.d/trickled_systemd
# Upload bandwidth limit in KBit/s TRICKLE_UP= # Download bandwidth limit in KBit/s TRICKLE_DOWN= # Set peak detection window size to size KB. This determines # how aggressive trickled is at eliminating bandwidth consump- # tion peaks. Lower values will be more aggressive, but may # also result in over shaping. TRICKLE_WSIZE=512 # Set smoothing time to seconds s. The smoothing time deter- # mines with what intervals trickled will try to let the ap- # plication transcieve data. Smaller values will result in a # more continuous (smooth) session, while larger values may # produce bursts in the sending and receiving data. Smaller # values (0.1 - 1 s) are ideal for interactive applications # while slightly larger values (1 - 10 s) are better for ap- # plications that need bulk transfer. This parameter is cus- # tomizable on a per-application basis via trickled.conf(5). TRICKLE_STIME=5 # Set smoothing length to length KB. The smoothing length is # a fallback of the smoothing time. If trickled cannot meet # the requested smoothing time, it will instead fall back on # sending length KB of data. The default value is 10 KB. TRICKLE_SLENGTH=10