Time Quanta for rate limiting

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mjfrazer
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Time Quanta for rate limiting

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I frequently use remote interactive applications (VNC/Remote Desktop) that require low latency and get quite choppy even when I have transmission throttled to use < 20% of my bandwidth.

I am wondering if there is any way to set a time quanta for rate limiting? What I would like is for my interactive packets to be delayed no more than 50ms by a transmission packet when I have the turtle on.

If there is no way to do this, am I at the right place to suggest it? This would likely mean setting TCP_NODELAY on the sockets, so we can ship out packets smaller than the MTU every 50 or 100ms. I also realize that most people won't want this as a default since it will use more bandwidth for the same amount of torrent data being sent (more packet headers).
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