`Client::set_download_speed_limit(bytes_per_second)` puts one ceiling on
every download at once. Zero lifts it and is the default. It can be
changed at any time, and a change reaches transfers already running
within one 100 ms tick.
The limiter works the way Soulseek.NET's does, which slskd uses for its
own download limit: one token bucket shared by all downloads, refilled
to a tenth of a second's worth every 100 ms, handing out partial grants
and taking back what a short read or a timeout did not use. A download
is paced by reading less from the socket. The unread bytes stay in the
kernel's receive buffer and TCP flow control slows the uploader; no
protocol message is involved, as in Nicotine+ too.
With no cap set, each read costs one atomic load. A same-hour stress
run scored develop 88.98/88.98 and this branch 89.00/88.99/88.97, at
about 133 MiB/s both.
An upload ceiling is left out, as before.
Michel de Graaf
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