0.7 will include a queued download manager, and will react to most config file changes immediately.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:38:26PM -0500, Anonymous wrote: > > At 03:52 a.m. 17/12/2005, I wrote: > >My earlier question is a good start but I think in Freenet 0.7 it would be > >good if a simple scheduler > >is implemented. This should allow different configs to be used at different > >time. This would mean that > >we can specificy different bandwidth limits at different times. Since > >FreeNet is supposed to run all > >the time, this will be useful for people with slow connections, shared > >connections and different data > >charges for different times. I hope you consider this suggestion for FreeNet > >0.7 > > Good news again. I found a way to do what I want. I thought Freenet does not > respond to changes in the config file unless you restart. It turns out it > does, at least for speed. So you can use a batch file to do what I want if > you create 2 different config file. For example to slow down: > > if exist freenet.ini.normal goto sloweddown > ren freenet.ini freenet.ini.normal > ren freenet.ini.slowspeed freenet.ini > goto sloweddown > :sloweddown > > Then you can create another batch file to return to normal speed.. Then using > Windows task scheduler you can schedule the batch files to run when you want. > This works fine provided Freenet responds to changes in the config file > (which 0.5 does). If not, I guess a restart commandline option would be > sufficient. However the disadvantage with this method is that it requires you > to maintain two config files so you need to make sure any changes in one are > made in the other. > > I guess it is not so important for a Freenet scheduler then even if useful. > For me, the bigger issue now is FUQID. I change the number of threads because > otherwise it is using too many when I slow down. But the problem is, there is > no way to schedule. I don't know if it responds to changes in the config file > but the config file stores info on the current ul and dl so you cannot use it > the way I do above. I also don't know if it responds to changes in config > file while active and if not, I guess you have restart which is even worse > since you need to stop. Stopping FUQID is quite difficult since you need to > tell it to deactivate but there is no command line option I think and > taskkill doesn't do anything. Only way is a force which of course is > ungraceful. I guess this is OT but unfortunately, the biggest problem now is > FUQID for me. If FUQID have command line options to change threads and > similar it would be very good. Currently only way I can think of is using > macros which is very ugly. > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > [email protected] > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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