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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: "Niceness" for network transfers
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2005-02-18 18:04:07
Message-ID: 200502181604.07731.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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Jason Keirstead wrote:
>I don't know why you would want to do this at the KIO level - it seems
> to me like it is the kernel's job.

If I understand correctly, the user queues a lot of downloads, via HTTP or 
FTP, and then selects some that he wants prioritised, while for others he 
can afford waiting a bit longer.

Given the amount of bandwidth available, he'd want to - say - allocate 80% 
of it to the priority downloads.

That means:
1) the rules of what is priority and what isn't is dynamic. You can't have 
a fixed set of iptables rules.
2) Consequence of #1 is that either the solution has to be implemented in 
userspace completely, or we'd ned a Linux-only, setuid helper program, to 
modify the iptables rules.

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