TRICKLED.CONF(5)

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💖 TRICKLED.CONF(5) 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to the File Formats Manual glow-up edition of trickled.conf 🎀 this is the tea on how to write the config file that trickled(8) reads, and honestly? it's giving simple. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

trickled.conf — literally just the format of the configuration file used by trickled(8). that's it, that's the vibe. 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the format is super duper easy, like embarrassingly easy. sections get wrapped in square brackets, like this:

[Section]

and then inside those bracket sections, the options are just lil key value pairs, one per line:

Option = Value

that's the whole thing. no yaml indentation trauma, no json commas to forget. we love a low-drama file format 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

so the per-application customizable variables go inside sections, and the section name has to match the application name. yes bestie, section name = app name, keep them matching or it's not gonna hit. the options are:

  • Priority — sets the priority of the application. for the details, go peek at trickled(8) 🔥
  • Time-Smoothing — sets the time smoothing parameter of the application. again, trickled(8) has the details if you want them 🌈
  • Length-Smoothing — sets the length smoothing parameter of the application. and yep, you guessed it, trickled(8) for the details ⭐

💅 EXAMPLES 💅

here's the moment you've all been waiting for, a real live config, iconic behavior:

[ssh]
Priority = 1
Time-Smoothing = 0.1
Length-Smoothing = 2
[ftp]
Priority = 8
Time-Smoothing = 5
Length-Smoothing = 20

see? two apps, two sections, three options each, no chaos. slay ✨

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

go read those if you want the full lore, bestie 🫶

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

trickled.conf has been developed by Marius Aamodt Eriksen ⟨marius@monkey.org⟩. thank you for your service king 👑

lowkey mandatory: this page came out of the Debian crew, dated March 3, 2003, and it's filed under TRICKLED.CONF(5) 🎀 that's the whole manual, go forth and smooth your traffic, mwah 💖
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