It was never reall "bandwidth". That was a poor choice of words. Other machines sharing the same Internet connection had no problem. It only appears to be bandwidth on the machine where the cancel happened because you can only get minimal snippets of time on the Internet connection for other processes.
The unfriendly tone is because KPackage it was forced on us looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong before it was even BETA ready (and it still isn't) and became a bug ridden portion of an LTS, which should have _never_ been allowed. Without looking at the code I can most likely tell you the bug. Threads are what you get when you don't get a real operating system to start with. 98% of all Linux bugs are due to this. The problem manifests itself on slow bandwidth connections so people with a cable connection won't see the problem. Wireless broadband, Satellite, and dial-up will all see it because bandwidth has peaks and valleys. (dial-up should always see it because there is little to peak.) Someone split the download into threads. When the foreground thread was killed off, the background thread was waiting on a 5-10 second packet time out and it missed all notification that it should go away. When the packet it was waiting on either finally got there, or timed out, it tried to communicate with a now missing thread and went off into a tight loop contained in a completely un- tested error handler. This loop somehow allocated/consumed all access to the current network device. To really test this problem you need a relatively slow connection AND you need the powers that be to completely ignore user requests, releasing another 200+MEG "update" which ensures all of the host servers will be overloaded by download processes. During one of those weeks you should be able to replicate this at will. Most people haven't bothered to report this bug, they simply reboot the computer and look towards Microsoft. This bug made it into an LTS and shouldn't have. On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:16:58 pm you wrote: > Ah, so the download is just not cancelled! And you actually CAN confirm > this for Maverick too? This is all we wanted :P But you should consider > that most people work on these tools in their free-time and that a bug > report which is written in a somewhat unfriendly tone is not threated at > first place. By the way: Aborting download works fine with 10.10 and the > recent PK and KPK releases here, and I also double-checked the bandwidth > usage afterwards, so I cannot confirm this here. -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- [lucid] kpackagekit waxes all Internet bandwidth until reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/425280 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
