Re: how to set network io priority for a process?
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Mike Bird wrote:
> packets aren't lost. This doesn't work for UDP and ICMP and works poorly
> for varying loads.
Correct. But it works wonderfully for long-lived TCP connections, and if
you are using ftp/http (and not, say, bittorrent) to get your ISOs, it will
help you.
That said, there is a very undocumented way to *queue* incoming traffic. It
used to require that hideous buggy IMQ device (but at least that one is
copiously documented!), but nowadays you can do it differently (something to
do with dummy devices?) I think. You might want to look that up. That
allows one to do real shaping on incoming, without dropping packets.
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Henrique Holschuh
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