Bandwidth limits seemingly ignored

[Slippy]

Hello group,

I am trying to enforce bandwidth limits onto specific jobs/clients, and am finding no success. I add the following:
client .conf file:

   Maximum Bandwidth Per Job = 1024 k/s

job .conf file:
   Maximum Bandwidth = 1024 k/s

But neither seems to be limiting the bandwidth usage, which appears to be closer to 80mbps. I see a bug report from 6 years ago; my symptoms are the same: the service accepts my .conf edits, but the bandwidth never seems to change.

Is there a deeper understanding that I am missing, or is it possible that the bug still exists? Does anyone have bandwidth limits working in any capacity?

Thanks!

-Dave

[Erich Eckner]

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On Mon, 31 Aug 2020, Slippy wrote:

> Hello group,

Hi Dave,

I cannot comment on the bareos configuration part, but I *do* have
bandwidth limits working - I employ iptables and ip6tables on the
storagedaemon for that. The reason, why I never bothered with doing this
via bareos configuration, was, that I wanted to change the bandwidth of
already-running jobs, which is impossible by changing the config IIRC.

My configuration looks something like:

$ iptables -N bareos
$ iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 9103 -j bareos

then you can enforce the limit via

$ iptables -t filter -A bareos -m hashlimit --hashlimit-above 10kb/s --hashlimit-name bareos -j DROP

and remove it via

$ iptables -t filter -F bareos

Of course, you can think of more elaborate filtering, but I simply wanted
to reduce the total bandwidth.

>
> Thanks!
> -Dave

HTH,
Erich

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