yum & slow internet

[Les Mikesell]

Sunil Ghai wrote:
> 
> 
> As Diego Escobar has mentioned, many people around the world have slow 
> internet connection.  How about having a feature (possibly in kernel 
> itself) to make updates using _idle_ bandwidth only? By idle I mean 
> which is currently not being used and is free.

If you have more than one system on your network, how can your kernel 
possibly know what is free?

> This would also keep 
> responsiveness in other network applications. We can use current traffic 
> control tools like tc to implement this.

The traffic is mostly coming the other direction.  You can deliberately 
slow down the ack's to slow it down but you can't really tell how much 
is appropriate.

> This might take some extra time and in no way making the network faster 
> but user would be able to keep the system updated in best possible way 
> on slow internet connection.

You don't need to update continuously. I think a better approach is to 
explicitly download at a time you are taking a break from other 
activity.  Go get some coffee, have lunch, etc. and come back with the 
download part completed.

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   Les Mikesell
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