billie schrieb:
> Hi all. I'm writing a TCP-based application that I will use to trasfer
> binary files through the network. This piece of code represents how do
> I get a file from a remote peer and save it on my local hard drive:
>
> file_obj = open('downloaded.ext', 'wb')
> while 1:
> buf = sock.recv(2048)
> if len(buf) == 0:
> break
> file_obj.write(buf)
> file_obj.close()
> sock.close()
>
> I would like to know how could be possible to limit the file transfer
> speed (for example: don't write more than 50 Kb/sec).
> Some ideas?
If you are on unix, use trickle. If you must limit it from within your
own code, I can only assume that computing the transfer rate so far and
introducing timeouts might help - but I never did such a thing, nor do I
know what that means for example for the network stack.
But maybe even then trickle may help you to get an idea, as it is a
user-space program AFAIK. So they might have some information (at least
the code... ) out there that could be of use.
Diez
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