On Thursday 03 November 2005 13:59, Dale & Yvonne Ogilvie wrote: > Hi all, > > > > one small irritation with my Suse 10 system. I have noticed that if I have > a firefox/konq download going in the background it tends to make other > browsing fairly unresponsive, as the download seems to starve other > clients... Is there a way to "nice" a download somehow? I know wget has a > limitrate flag, but this is not quite what I want as I want the dialup > connection to run at full speed unless something else wants it...
Have a play with your "QoS and/or fair queueing" kernel options. See:- http://www.google.com/search?q=QoS+and/or+fair+queueing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 In particular:- http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/traffic_shaping/buildkernel.html YMMV - Have Fun! :-) -- CS
