I'm trying to set speed limits on downloading/uploading files and found that twisted provides twisted.protocols.policies.ThrottlingFactory to handle this job, but I can't get it right. I set readLimit and writeLimit, but file is still downloading on a maximum speed. What am I doing wrong?

from twisted.protocols.basic import FileSender
from twisted.protocols.policies import ThrottlingFactory
from twisted.web import server, resource
from twisted.internet import reactor
import os

class DownloadPage(resource.Resource):
    isLeaf = True

    def __init__(self, producer):
        self.producer = producer

    def render(self, request):
        size = os.stat(somefile).st_size
        request.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/octet-stream')
        request.setHeader('Content-Length', size)
        request.setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="' + somefile + '"')
        request.setHeader('Accept-Ranges', 'bytes')

        fp = open(somefile, 'rb')
        d = self.producer.beginFileTransfer(fp, request)

        def err(error):
            print "error %s", error

        def cbFinished(ignored):
            fp.close()
            request.finish()
        d.addErrback(err).addCallback(cbFinished)

        return server.NOT_DONE_YET


producer = FileSender()
root_resource = resource.Resource()
root_resource.putChild('download', DownloadPage(producer))
site = server.Site(root_resource)
tsite = ThrottlingFactory(site, readLimit=10000, writeLimit=10000)
tsite.protocol.producer = producer
reactor.listenTCP(8080, tsite)
reactor.run()

UPDATE

So sometime after I run it:

2012-10-25 09:17:03+0600 [-] Unhandled Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/home/chambylov/environments/transfer/local/lib/p
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