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English => Feature requests => Topic started by: blablubb on January 07, 2010, 05:43:26 PM
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I recently tracked down packet loss present when aMule was running on my Linux file server/firewall (full PC with Debian, not an appliance). The only parameter that had a real effect was the "maximum number of connections per 5 seconds" under advanced settings. Unfortunately it only goes down to 5, at which setting I still have about 1% loss. Loss with 10 is about 5%. I am pretty sure the loss happens within the cable modem, which may have a not too well done Firmware, but unfortunately I cannot do anything about this.
So while I found a way to reduce loss (all other parameters have basically no effect), there seems to be a lower Limit on this to the effect that you cannot have less than 5 new connections per 5 seconds. Please remove this limit, there is already ample warning on the configuration page in amulegui and I would rather be able to eliminate the loss and have worse performance than better performance but occasional real network issues.
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5 connections per five seconds is just one connection each second. Any sane router/modem should be able to handle this, so I don't really see a reason to remove this limitation.
However, you can edit ~/.aMule/amule.conf (only while aMule is not running!), and set MaxConnectionsPerFiveSeconds to any value you want to.
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I don't want this low setting for regular production use, but for debugging. If a manual edit can bypass the limit, that is good enough for me.
As it turns out, the cause was not the cable modem, but the cable segment head-end, which was replaced today and the loss is gone now.
Thanks for the info.