sophana wrote: > chrism at imntv.com a écrit : > >> Perhaps I'm missing something, but most bittorrent clients make it >> rather easy to define/limit the speed of both the upstream and >> downstream data rate. So it will only consume as much bandwidth as >> you allow it. I'm not certain what you can do about controlling the >> number of network connections or even if that would be considered any >> real burden on modern hardware if you've got a sensible upstream >> bitrate set. >> > > client side bandwidth limitting is quite far from perfect, because, it > is still bursty. > I would like that my existing hosted application will not be impacted > from the massive bittorrent bandwidth, and that my response latency will > remain very low. > Only ipfilter scripts can do that. > I don't think you will find it very bursty if you set a relatively low threshold. It will hit the threshold and just stay there (at least during times of rapid change...like new major or minor releases). I note that when I set my upstream bitrate to 30k/sec, it immediately pegs there and stays there. Cheers,