https://batmat.net/tags/throttling/ Recent content in throttling on batmat.net Hugo fr-FR Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://batmat.net/2018/10/05/throttle-network-bandwidth-on-linux/ Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://batmat.net/2018/10/05/throttle-network-bandwidth-on-linux/ Recently, as some of our tests for Jenkins Evergreen related to file downloading were a bit flaky and failing more often, and hence slowing down unrelated PRs, I decided to dig into it to see how/if I could improve the situation. Main issue seemed like one test downloading a 5 MB file could sometimes time out (i.e. take more than 120 seconds). It looked like the network, though everything is running in The Cloud ™, would sometimes temporarily and randomly get into very low downloading speeds.