From 8e3703abeb449cc594d1a18fa374f1e605b2b039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 18:39:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] drive: docs about rate limiting

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 docs/content/drive.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/content/drive.md b/docs/content/drive.md
index a7a0ce67c..cf905ad49 100644
--- a/docs/content/drive.md
+++ b/docs/content/drive.md
@@ -86,3 +86,11 @@ was
 
   * They are deleted after 30 days or 100 revisions (whatever comes first).
   * They do not count towards a user storage quota.
+
+Limitations
+-----------
+
+Drive has quite a lot of rate limiting.  This causes rclone to be
+limited to transferring about 2 files per second only.  Individual
+files may be transferred much faster at 100s of MBytes/s but lots of
+small files can take a long time.