Rudi Chiarito wrote:
Another problem to worry about is saturation of the link upstream. I'm
sure the average user wouldn't want the browser choked by rsync. Yes,
you can tell rsync to use at most N KB/s, but that's not always easy to
get right, if the user is in the position to estimate it at all - not to
mention that link speed might change at any time for e.g. mobile users.
I've always wondered why applications are so greedy individually. Is
there no mechanism to throttle requested bandwidth between apps? I often
run into instances when a bit torrent uplink is saturating my uplink and
crippling my web browsing capabilities because i dont even have enough
space to send requests (id imagine thats the cause any way). Obviously i
could manually divide my bandwidth but it often changes (laptop and on
cable modem with variable up/down at home, bottomless connection speeds
at work). Is the overhead of such a monitoring system too high for the
benefit? Has it been attempted? There seem to be so many advantages to
such a system with the increasing popularity of higbandwidth activities
and the general user (Bittorrent, video on demand, aMule, Music
services) It just seems like a self auditing network interface would
make sense here.
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