Updates using idle bandwidth

[Andrew Farris]

James Antill wrote:
> ...so it's far more work than just adding the above two lines to
> yum-updatesd.

Ok, then since yum-updatesd is calling yum to handle it, adding a normal yum 
parameter to set the congestion level would suffice as long yum gets the ability 
to pass it on to urlgrabber?  It might actually be nice to have the ability to 
do yum --congestion 13 or something like that when manually running an update too.

Tomasz Torcz wrote:
 > Module tcp_lp.ko will be autoloaded by kernel. So this setsockopt() call
 > is ready to be put into yum-updatesd, just after socket creation.

A good question then is how do you set congestion level off and not get the 
kernel module loaded (if its not needed you wouldn't want it loading just to 
have it do nothing).  Does setting TCP_CONGESTION = 0 result in not loading the 
module or does it just not limit traffic?

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