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[walkin]

What would be optimal / best upload settings for 5 Megabit/s symmetric connection ?
Thank you.

[deltaHF]

I guess its max 625kB/s .. Well, i would go for 400kB/s max upload and 20 slot allocation (20 clients a 20 kB/s).

[walkin]

Thank you delta,
this means there is no limit ? I set it to  whatever  my  line  is capable ?
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[wuischke]

delta suggests a limit of 400KB/s. I think that if you want to, you can even raise this to 500 or 600, depending on your real speed and usage (i.e. when there are many people sharing this line with you, use a lower upload)

[walkin]

Thank you. Maybe I wasn't concise  enough  in my first post. My question should have been: is there any hardware or software limits for aMule  on  broadband connections (5 or more Megabits/s) ? I might be going  on 20 Mb/s. I like it fast.

[wuischke]

There are a couple of limits, yes.

There is the maximum number of connections your hardware can process. A usual Linux box should be fine with a couple of thousands of connections, but a cheap router (especially wireless) might be overstrained by as little as 300 concurrent connections. When you plan on sharing and downloading a lot of files, than you'll have plenty of connections, but any somewhat decent hardware shouldn't have a problem with it.

Linux has a soft limit of 1024 for open files per user as well, but this can be raised with ulimit.

aMule itself might struggle with a very high upload rate, too. Expect a higher CPU usage than usual and a sometimes sluggish upload behaviour (i.e. some slots upload with a very high speed while others will be near zero). Try to set your slot allocation as high as possible as well.

[eisa01]

I've successfully got my 1.33 GHz G4 iBook to upload at 1 MB/sec so you should be fine. But there's a lot of users not capable of downloading more than 10k/sec, and that's a problem.

[walkin]

Thank you all.