Unix Programming - Capping of sockets

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Capping of sockets

gamehack@gmail.com

2006-06-09, 7:23 pm

Hello all,

I've been thinking about implementing capping of sockets but I've
completely no idea how to do it. I'm receiving signals every time there
is data to be read and when I have data to write and the socket can
accept data. Is the only solution using a timer? What about the
resolution of the timer? Also I'm thinking that the bigger the
resolution of the timer the more CPU will be used so it won't be an
efficient solution.

Regards

davids@webmaster.com

2006-06-09, 7:23 pm

gamehack@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been thinking about implementing capping of sockets but I've
> completely no idea how to do it. I'm receiving signals every time there
> is data to be read and when I have data to write and the socket can
> accept data. Is the only solution using a timer? What about the
> resolution of the timer? Also I'm thinking that the bigger the
> resolution of the timer the more CPU will be used so it won't be an
> efficient solution.
>
> Regards

What do you mean by "capping" of sockets? Are you talking about
rate-limiting? If so, are you talking about TCP, UDP, both, or
something else?

DS