On 10/13/07, Josh Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. > > > > wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. > > > > Is this the right thing to do? > > > > Or is it better to back off a little after a bit? > > > > Tony > > IMO, this should be handled by the operating system, not the > individual applications. That's one of the reasons I believe this > should be a module instead, because it's more or less a hack to patch > what the environment should be doing for wget, not vice versa. > > In my experience, GNU/Linux tends to consume all the resources > unbiasedly, seemingly on a "first come first serve *until you're...
Well, you may have such problems but you are very much reaching in thinking that my --linux-percent has anything to do with any failing in linux. It's about dealing with unfair upstream switches, which, I'm quite sure, were not running Linux. Let's not hijack this into a linux-bash. -- Best Regards. Tony
