throttle
Limits the bandwidth of a pipeline.
Synopsis
throttle <bandwidth> [--within <duration>]
Description
The throttle
operator limits the amount of data flowing through it to a
bandwidth.
<bandwidth>
An unsigned integer giving the maximum bandwidth that is enforced for this pipeline, in bytes per the specified interval.
--within <duration>
The duration in which to measure the maximum bandwidth.
Defaults to 1s.
Examples
Read a TCP stream and print the data to stdout at a rate of 1 character per second:
load tcp://0.0.0.0:4000 | throttle 1
Load a sample input data file at a speed of at most 1MiB every 10s and import it into the node:
load https://storage.googleapis.com/tenzir-datasets/M57/zeek-all.log.zst
| throttle 1Mi --window 10s
| decompress zstd
| read zeek-tsv
| import