Rate limit on a Qemu KVM VM

[yena]

Hello,

To have a rate-limit on the bandwidth of a VPS limited
to 1 Gigabit/second, is it correct to set the rate limit to 125?

Thanks!

 

[leesteken]

To have a rate-limit on the bandwidth of a VPS limited
to 1 Gigabit/second, is it correct to set the rate limit to 125?

It's in MegaBytes per Second, so I would say yes. It limits both up and down to 125MB/s each. There might be some CPU and/or bandwidth overhead in the filtering/limiting, so I might not be exact.

 

[UdoB]

1 Gigabit/second, is it correct to set the rate limit to 125?

I am curious: is this necessary? For you as the customer?

If the provider sold you "only" 1 GBit/s they will make sure to not deliver more. Right?