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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: "Niceness" for network transfers
From:       Jason Keirstead <jason () keirstead ! org>
Date:       2005-02-18 18:43:37
Message-ID: 200502181443.37192.jason () keirstead ! org
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On Friday 18 February 2005 2:04 pm, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

If this is really the user's goal, it sounds to me like a specialized feature 
of KGet or some other tool.

I don't even know of any way to queue KIO downloads, other than KGet....

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