Uploading too fast with f-spot (or "how do you throttle f-spot's upload speed?)

[Joseph Linkous]

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jelle De Loecker
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:58 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Uploading too fast with f-spot (or "how do you throttle f-spot's
upload speed?)

 

Hi everyone,

It's common knowledge that utilising your upload speed affects the download
speed, but this goes a bit too far:
When I upload something with f-spot I'm practically unable to download
anything else, I can't even browse the web normally.

Is f-spot somehow managing the traffic wrong? Because it's the only
application I'm having this problem with, and it's like that on every
website I upload files too (facebook, flickr, my own gallery)

Is there maybe a way to throttle the upload speed of applications
individually?

 

After about 80% of your current max upload is taken, your download becomes
severely affected. BitTorrent makes this problem very apparent, which is why
they added the ability to limit bandwidth from within the program. Obviously
though, f-spot doesn't have that ability, or else you wouldn't be asking
this question. There might be something available that limits the computer's
bandwidth from within Linux, but I've found the best solution is to set the
Quality of Service in your router to cap the maximum upload/download speeds
for the entire network (80% upload, 90% download, for instance). That
ensures that the thresholds on either the upload and download are never
reached, so the other doesn't get throttled.

That assumes you've got a router which supports QoS, or a router that's
capable of being flashed with DD-WRT. If not, then there's probably a local
fix for your computer. The QoS settings would be the more elegant way of
doing it, imo.

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