Re: how to set network io priority for a process?
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:42:29PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:11:43 -0400
> Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> >
> > > I have issues similar to Doug's, and I have also wondered whether
> > > kernel based traffic shaping is what I need. Since we both use
> > > shorewall, which has an interface to the kernel's shaping capabilities,
> > > I suppose we ought to read shorewall-doc/html/traffic_shaping.htm
> > >
> >
> > As expected, shorewall can't help in this regard.
>
> Why not?
>
At best, it can duplicate wondershaper. However, its designed for
high-speed internet access. Its hysteresis is larger than my dialup
bandwidth.
The big issue is that none of the available shaping methods work by
throttling outgoing requests for a chunck of incoming data. They are
intended to limit the rate of outbound data.
What we need is a multi-protocol proxy server that does proper
throttling of download requests.
Doug.
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