Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:14:46PM -0000, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Jul 29, 11:10 am, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtu...@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > I'm on slow dialup.  Downloads of iso's take days. Yet, I still want to
> > be able to browse the internet.
> >
> > I would like to set up something like trickle that will run something
> > but limit its bandwidth so that it lower's its priority.
> [...]
> > What I want is something like ionice but for network bandwidth.
> 
> I'm not sure if that's workable, but if you have your own home
> network,
> you might look into setting up your own squid cache.  Squid is a web
> proxy that maintains it's own cache of items people on your network
> have already visited.  If you use offline mode, you may have to force
> a refresh on sites you know have new content (shift-refresh in most
> browsers), but items you've already downloaded for viewing before
> will load much more quickly on subsequent visits.
> 

I already have polipo cache set up and working.  

Perhaps this is something else I'll have to write from scratch.  I'll
have to see how, at any given time, one sees what is using the
bandwidth.

Thanks,

Doug.