On 22/01/2011, at 7:21 AM, Dennis Nezic wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:59:06 +0100, David ‘Bombe’ Roden wrote: >> a “simple thing” like bandwidth limiting > > Can someone explain why bandwidth limiting might not be such a simple > thing? Volodya tried, with his massive-incoming-packet theory > (40KiB :p), but that's not true -- freenet packets are about 1KiB. So, > is there not a central class/wrapper in place that feeds the node with > at most X KiB / second? Ie. it will only read X UDP packets per second?
It doesn't matter if you only read X packets a second, they've still been sent to you so it still used bandwidth. If you don't read UDP all that happens is your OS queues for a while the starts dropping packets. Unlike TCP, UDP doesn't implement speed controls. To control UDP you have to implement your own feedback and control system on the sender. To compound that freenet has to allocate its bandwidth over multiple senders, and it can't just to an even split as not all senders are equal. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
