Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:16:09PM +0100, josef reidinger wrote:
> > Then another problem is that aria2c will open 5 connections to each source 
> > by 
> > default. I need max 2 to use my bandwidth. 
>
>  -j, --max-concurrent-downloads=N
>            Set maximum number of parallel downloads for every static
>            (HTTP/FTP) URL, torrent and metalink. Default: 5

Note, the -j option is used to set the number of simultaneous downloads,
in the sense of multiple files being downloaded. This is possible
because metalinks can contain URLs to several files. But because in this
case just 1 download takes place, -j2 has no effect.

The option that limits parallel (HTTP/FTP) connections per download is

   -s, --split=N
           Download a file using N connections. If more than N URLs are given,
           first N URLs are used and remaining URLs are used for backup. If
           less than N URLs are given, those URLs are used more than once so
           that N connections total are made simultaneously. N must be between
           1 and 16. Please see -j option too.  Default: 5

Peter
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