On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 12:13 +0530, Anoop Chandran wrote:
Hey guys,
I was running an ssh session to a remote box from my laptop (FC6).
Meanwhile,
I started a download of a tar ball using Firefox (v.2). And suddenly I
was
unable to send any inputs to the terminal. It was like Firefox was
hogging
all of the network bandwidth. I waited till the download to be
completed, to
send further commands, so that i could really see what I was typing to
the
terminal.
Amused, I tried second time downloading a different package using
Firefox.
Same thing happened. I tried a `ping
www.yahoo.com` and it took at
least
five seconds to resolve the host and start pinging the host.
Was wondering if anyone had faced similar situation.
- Anoop
Short answer:
By design, unless you are using bandwidth capping (either on the
application or on the OS side), the network layer will give your
application all the bandwidth the network hardware has to offer.
If you are on a 200kbps line, and both the server and the intermediate
connections all have 200kbps to give you, the file download will eat
200kbps.
- Gilboa