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Commit c7775c59 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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mention in --limit-rate that --speed-limit might ruin the limiting slightly.

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......@@ -447,10 +447,13 @@ Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use. This feature is useful
if you have a limited pipe and you'd like your transfer not use your entire
bandwidth.
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 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.
If you are also using the \fI--speed-limit\fP option, that option will take
precedence and might cripple the rate-limiting slightly, to help keeping the
speed-limit logic working.
This option was introduced in curl 7.10.
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