From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270435AbTGXDst (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:48:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270447AbTGXDst (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:48:49 -0400 Received: from mail.skjellin.no ([80.239.42.67]:10671 "HELO mail.skjellin.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270435AbTGXDss (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:48:48 -0400 Subject: Re: Feature proposal (scheduling related) From: Andre Tomt To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: jimis@gmx.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200307231417.h6NEHoqj010244@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <3F1E6A25.5030308@gmx.net> <200307231417.h6NEHoqj010244@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <1059019460.2507.440.camel@slurv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 24 Jul 2003 06:04:20 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On ons, 2003-07-23 at 16:17, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:57:41 +0300, jimis@gmx.net said: > > 1)I 'm connected to the internet via dial-up, therefore I only have 40 kbits of > > bandwidth available. What I want to do is listen to icecast radio via xmms (at > > 22 kbits), download the kernel sources with wget, and browse the web at the same > > time. Currently I think that this is *impossible* (correct me if I'm wrong) as > > the radio will be full of pauses and the browsing experience painfully slow. > > 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. Take a look at http://trash.net/~kaber/imq/ Does wonders here, both local and forwarded traffic. -- Cheers, André Tomt andre@tomt.net