From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sameer Rahmani Subject: Share network traffic between process with respect to a priority number. Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:21:14 +0430 Message-ID: <500F9762.1090702@lxsameer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from static.61.134.47.78.clients.your-server.de ([78.47.134.61]:57624 "EHLO mail.yellowen.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753158Ab2GYG6x (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:58:53 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.151] (unknown [31.57.195.190]) by mail.yellowen.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 567AE200A3 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:49:15 +0200 (CEST) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi guys for years i have problems with sharing my network bandwidth between my processes. when one of my running processes (e.g axel) start to download data my other processes that needs bandwidth stop working (because they can't download their data) . i know that there is some tools like lartc but i was thinking about a priority value like NICE for this matter. kernel will share the bandwidth between process with respect to their network priority number let's call it NNICE ( or what ever ) . The process with highest NNICE will use the highest bandwidth. It's just an raw idea, i want to know your idea about the basic , and improve it. What do you think? With respect Sameer Rahmani