On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:36:31PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:18:00AM -0600, Will Glynn wrote:
> > >Does bandwidth throtlling work?
> >
> > Bandwidth throttling works great! It keeps any connection from going over
> > your bandwidth limit. Unfortunately, Freenet is making several
> > connections at any given time, so it doesn't really help you -- if you're
> > concerned about bandwidth, set your node to transient, and you won't get
> > as many requests. Or get a better Internet connection :)
>
> Since it was designed as global limit, that means it does not work. It
> is probably just coincidence somehow that it seems to throttle
> individual connections.
I glanced over Freenet.transport.tcpConnection and it looks like the
problem is just that the connection's output stream is getting wrapped
in a throttling stream, but the input stream is not, so the node is only
throttling outgoing data and not incoming.
Does anyone concur?
--
:: tavin cole (tcole at espnow.com) ::
if there's been a way to build it
there'll be a way to destroy it
things are not all that out of control
- stereolab
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