jimis@gmx.net wrote:
> With the current scheduler we can prioritize the CPU usage for each
> process. What I think would be extremely useful (as I have needed it
> many times) is the scheduling of disk I/O and net I/O traffic. 2
> examples showing the importance (the numbers are estimations just to
> explain whati I mean):
>
can address only your first problem.
> 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. What I would like to
> be able to do (let's suppose nice has the --net option to set net I/O
> priority):
> $ nice --net -1 xmms
> $ nice --net 1 wget ftp://.../KernelSources.tar.bz2
> $ mozilla
> This way, xmms which has top priority whould always get the 22kbits it
> needs. What remains should go to the browser when I ask for a web page,
> and when the browser doesn't request anything (let's say I'm reading a
> big doc in tldp) what remains should go to wget. Wget has lower priority
> and won't irritate the browsing experience, though the file will be
> downloaded when there is free bandwidth.
>
this is already in kernel and called Quality of Service (QoS) or
traffic shaping.
command is called /sbin/tc. (located in iproute.rpm in RH)
instead of man page (because there is no man page) I can recommend
to look in Internet.
e.g. http://users.belgacom.net/staf/ -> QoS intro
also you can try to "rpm -ql $(which tc)" - probably your distor has
some docs.
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