Commit 393ddd6e authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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clarify --limit-rate somewhat: it might send away/receive chunks of date in 

temporarily higher speeds than requested, but the given limiting is considered
"over time" and is an average
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docs/curl.1

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@@ -615,6 +615,10 @@ The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is appended. 
Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or M' makes it

megabytes while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G.



The given rate is the average speed, counted during the entire transfer. It

means that curl might use higher transfer speeds in short bursts, but over

time it uses no more than the given rate.



If you are also using the \fI-Y/--speed-limit\fP option, that option will take

precedence and might cripple the rate-limiting slightly, to help keeping the

speed-limit logic working.