monitoring the incoming traffic
 

i want to do ---

set the priority of the incoming traffic to my pc through the local area network

my approach

i took the pid's from the smbstatus . and then used renice to set the priority . it is working

is there any other efficient way to do that .
eg. making some changes in the smb.conf file ..

Such method doesn't work for the traffic itself. It works for the processes (one with worser priority will not get so muh processor time, so won't send so many packets). You may experiment with traffic shaping. Search for htb, cbq or similar mechanisms (the questions happen from time to time, and, what's also important, the setup is not that hard).