On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:41:54PM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
keep up with the data rate of the file system. Maybe read from a named pipe that is filled by another process with appropriate delays.
Just wanted to chime in here with the suggestion to use a program called 'buffer' which does just this - limits the amount of data per second that will be passed unchanged from its stdin to stdout :)
It's in Debian as package name 'buffer' and you'll be able to download the unpatched source code from http://packages.debian.org/buffer
Cheers, Gavin.