From db5494b316732c5bff241856da01c8849a9c23e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Breunig Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 10:49:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] document SIGUSR2 to toggle bandwidth limiter (fixes #1424) --- docs/content/docs.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/docs.md b/docs/content/docs.md index 52b07d5a5..6956754c5 100644 --- a/docs/content/docs.md +++ b/docs/content/docs.md @@ -283,6 +283,14 @@ you have a 10 Mbit/s connection and you wish rclone to use half of it - 5 Mbit/s. This is 5/8 = 0.625MByte/s so you would use a `--bwlimit 0.625M` parameter for rclone. +On Unix systems (Linux, MacOS, …) the bandwidth limiter can be toggled by +sending a `SIGUSR2` signal to rclone. This allows to remove the limitations +of a long running rclone transfer and to restore it back to the value specified +with `--bwlimit` quickly when needed. Assuming there is only one rclone instance +running, you can toggle the limiter like this: + + kill -SIGUSR2 $(pidof rclone) + ### --buffer-size=SIZE ### Use this sized buffer to speed up file transfers. Each `--transfer`