✨ Add option for unlimited capacity

src/rateLimiter.c

@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 #include "rateLimiter.h"
 #include "utils/min.h"
 
-//How many bytes we can write to disk per second: 30 MB/s
+//How many bytes we can write to disk per second: 30 MB/s. Use 0 to specify no limit
 #define DISK_SPEED 30UL * 1024UL * 1024UL
 /** If we are not writing to disk, how many seconds the capacity can keep increasing before it reaches the limit.
  * Increasing this value can result in a spike of data once we are writing to disk again, but then allows the data
  * to quickly be written without having to wait for capacity to be available. */
-#define MAX_IDLE_TIME 5UL
+#define MAX_IDLE_TIME 3UL
 //Capacity can be filled up to this maximum amount
 #define CAPACITY_MAX DISK_SPEED * MAX_IDLE_TIME
 
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ void increaseCapacity() {
 
 /** Pauses execution until the given amount of capacity is available */
 void consumeCapacity(unsigned long numBytes) {
+  //Exit early if there is no capacity limit
+  if (CAPACITY_MAX == 0UL) {
+    return;
+  }
+
   if (numBytes > CAPACITY_MAX) {
     fprintf(stderr, "Could not consume %lu bytes in rate limiter; maximum is %lu.\n", numBytes, CAPACITY_MAX);
     errorAndExit();