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Questions tagged [throttling]

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Throttle network bandwidth per application in Mac OS X

I notice that iTunes seems to suck up all my bandwidth and doesn’t play nice with other applications that use the web when it's downloading. In fact, it doesn't even give itself enough bandwidth when browsing the iTunes Store while downloading…
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Stop Dell from throttling CPU with power adapter

My Dell laptop is experiencing the old problem of the power adapter failing to be recognized by the computer. I know for a fact it is just a break in the data cable in the line, because if I position it just right, the cable is recognized and the…
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How can I throttle the bandwidth consumed by Windows Automatic Updates?

We have many Windows XP computers sharing one connection to the internet. These machines are set to download all available automatic updates and then prompt the user to install them. Whenever Patch Tuesday rolls around, our internet usage pegs out,…
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Can I reduce the CPU speed of my MacBook when on battery?

I've got a MacBook with a Core 2 Duo CPU. I've got CoreDuoTemp installed which can show the current speed of the CPU. It appears to always show: Mini : 1.0 GHz Maxi : 2.0 GHz Current : 2.0 GHz I believe my laptop would run longer on battery if it…
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How to aggressively throttle background tabs in Firefox using dom.min_background_timeout_value

What are the correct settings to aggressively throttle background tabs in Firefox? Years ago I stumbled on this post explaining various about:config settings in Firefox for throttling background (and foreground) tabs, but I could never make sense of…
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How to Tell if Internet Connection is being Throttled by Provider?

I am trying to figure out how to scientifically check and prove if my connection is being throttled by my Internet provider. Last time I asked them about this issue, they denied throttling and blamed the Web servers and congested international…
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How to effectively diagnose ISP throttling (or other ISP related issues) and what to do about it?

My question is a bit general but I assume there has to be a good, specific answer to my problem. I, like many, am beginning to wonder if my ISP is throttling my home internet connection. I'm not so quick to judge because throttling accusations are…
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In Prime95, why do small FFTs generate the most heat, despite CPU at 100% for all options?

I've just built a new Skylake PC, and I'm going to see about a bit of overclocking with Prime95 as a stress tester. It works fine in normal use, but with Prime95 I'm noticing a bit of CPU throttling under certain loads. If all 4 cores (8 threads)…
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Does Mac OS X throttle the RATE of socket creation?

This may seem programming related, but this is an OS question. I'm writing a small high performance daemon that takes thousands of connections per second. It's working fine on Linux (specifically Ubuntu 9.10 on EC2). On Mac OS X if I throw a few…
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CPU utilization won't go above 30%

I have an HP Pavillion 14 laptop. Intel Celeron 1.6GHz 2 core. 2Gb RAM. Windows 10. It's running really slowly. So slow that its unusable right from the very start. I check the resource monitor and the CPU never goes above 30% utilization or…
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How can I circumvent BitTorrent throttling?

My ISP is a reseller of Bell Canada DSL service. Bell uses Deep Packet Inspection for all of its users and resellers to limit the bandwidth consumed by P2P applications such as BitTorrent. Bell throttles between 4:30pm - 2:00am daily. Early…
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NVIDIA GPU throttling? (8800 GTS - card runs super hot)

I have an NVIDIA 8800 GTS video card installed in my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit PC. I don't run 3D apps or games all that frequently and as the card runs quite hot I'd like to see if it's possible to set up dynamic GPU throttling. My computer…
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Configure DD-WRT to Limit Bandwidth on Devices

I have flashed DD-WRT firmware to my TP-Link WRT841-N router, set the basic network configuration & wireless. I want to limit bandwidth on a user who is always using torrents which is causing my network connection slowdown. Or is there any way to…
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Ubuntu Trickle Will Not Open Chrome

I'm trying to open Chrome with trickle to throttle the upload speed so I can test a sites image uploading progress display, but the build in dev tools for chrome only allow throttling for downloads. This command works for Firefox, but Chrome's dev…
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how do I know if the BIOS or the OS is throttling my CPU? (Linux)

I'm using Ubuntu Linux 18.04. I've been sold a secondhand Dell Precision M6700 Laptop with an underpowered power adaptor. Apparently, the BIOS can recognize this condition, and I read somewhere that it will apply an extreme throttle to the CPU. How…
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