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[David Nielsen <gnomeuser@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> This seems like a really cool idea.
>

Thank you


> The throttling issue applies not just to network connections, but to
> writing to the same disk where skipping from one area of the disk to
> another is slow; it's quicker to finish one task completely before
> starting the next. There could be some sort of priority system so that
> more interactive tasks could jump the queue: "just hold on for a moment,
> Transmission -- Gimp wants to save a 140-MB file to the same disk right
> now".
>

You could probably do something like forcing transmission to run in the
ionice idle class and set similar classes for the other desktop apps
accordingly. At least to test if the approach would make any difference.

David