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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: "Niceness" for network transfers
From:       Gábor_Lehel <illissius () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-02-17 19:43:10
Message-ID: 9cfeadb80502171143403b7dcc () mail ! gmail ! com
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Well, I know next to nothing about the whole topic myself, but my gut
feeling is this would be an iptables thing (or whatever is analogous
to it on non-Linux OSes).


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:06:08 +0100, Rainer Wirtz <rainer.wirtz@gmx.de> wrote:
> Now that Felix has just removed the options from kget->preferences, I
> would really like to know how this could be implemented.
> There are hundreds of votes for this wish: have a niceness level for
> transfers, so that while kget makes full use of available bandwidth,
> there's no noticeable slowdown when surfing or news-reading.
> Especially important for low bandwidth connections like modem or ISDN.
> 
> I know this has to work deep down on the kernel and TCP/IP level before
> a KIO::JOB::setNiceness() can be implemented. And there's qt in
> between.
> 
> My question to the geeks: Is there any provision for this functionality
> in IPv4 and/or IPv6? And, if yes, what are the chances for this to
> become available on kde-application level. And what could I do to help
> accelerating this.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rainer
> 
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