Trickle

Trickle is a cool little tool that you can use on your Linux system to control how much bandwidth your apps use. This open-source software is super lightweight and portable, so you can easily take it with you wherever you go. You can run it on its own or team it up with other programs.

What Can Trickle Do?

With Trickle, you can manage the network traffic for sending and receiving data through sockets. It's like having a traffic cop for your internet! The best part? It runs entirely in user space and works great with the latest versions of the Linux kernel.

Getting Started with Trickle

If you're curious about what Trickle can do, just type ‘trickle --help’ in your terminal emulator to see all the options available. You can run it independently without needing its daemon, which gives you more flexibility. Plus, you can set limits on how fast your downloads and uploads are.

Tweaking Your Settings

You have plenty of options to customize how Trickle works for you! You can adjust things like window length, default smoothing time, and even set latency levels. There’s also a trickle daemon (trickled) socket name for advanced users who want more control.

Easy Installation Steps

Installing Trickle is super straightforward! Just grab the latest version from Softpas, save it to your Home directory, unzip it, and open up a Terminal app.

Navigating to where you've extracted the files is easy too (like using 'cd /home/softpedia/trickle-1.07'). Then just run ‘./configure && make’ to get everything set up before installing with ‘sudo make install’!

A Cross-Platform Wonder

Trickle isn't just limited to Linux; it's developed on OpenBSD and works across several systems! Whether you're using FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris OSes, or different CPU architectures like SPARC or Alpha, this software has got you covered!