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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: jimis@gmx.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Feature proposal (scheduling related)
Date: 23 Jul 2003 15:23:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058970206.5520.71.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307231417.h6NEHoqj010244@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 15:17, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Basically, you're stuck.  The biggest part of the problem is that although you
> can certainly control the outbound packets, you have no real control over when
> inbound packets arrive at the other end of your dial-up.  One person suggested
> using QoS to help things along - but that needs to be implemented at the OTHER
> end of the dial-up - which means unless your provider does QoS on the terminal
> server, you're basically stuck.  Packets will probably just get queued up in
> order of arrival.

There are a few things that help in the general real world but not
mathematical sense. Use an ftp client like gnome-ftp which can set the
rate it accepts data and window sizes. It'll still jam the modem a
little when it starts a transfer but then it'll generally be ok if you
have a bit of buffering for your icecast stream.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-23 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-23 10:57 Feature proposal (scheduling related) jimis
2003-07-23 11:24 ` David M. Wilson
2003-07-23 11:43 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-25 20:24   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-07-28  9:29     ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-23 14:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-23 14:23   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-23 15:10     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-23 15:13       ` Antonio Vargas
2003-07-23 16:55         ` Disconnect
2003-07-23 17:22           ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 14:47   ` Greg Stark
2003-07-23 22:17   ` jimis
2003-07-24  0:58     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-24  4:04   ` Andre Tomt
     [not found] <cpvY.4hH.25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-07-23 11:54 ` Ihar "Philips" Filipau
2003-07-23 12:42 Frederick, Fabian

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