On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:49 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > I write second time about TCP Low Priority. It's a congestion control > algorithm included in Linux kernel. Connections using this algorithm > *should* use only idle bandwidth. In other words, such framework already > exist in form of self-tuning TCP stack. > Last time I wrote you asked for example code how to use it. Here you > are, in python: > > #v+ > #!/usr/bin/python > > import socket > > socket.TCP_CONGESTION = 13 > > sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) > sock.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_CONGESTION, "lp") Ok, that's not a terrible idea _but_: 1. yum-updatesd doesn't have a socket, it calls yum which calls urlgrabber. 2. yum-updatesd currently holds the yum lock while it downloads. ...so it's far more work than just adding the above two lines to yum-updatesd. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
