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[Kry]

Does this binnary work properly, please? And if it does, seems ok to make it official?

http://download.berlios.de/amule/aMule-2.0.0-Mac.zip

[m2kio]

hi,
it's ok, besides the known new flaws with xwMac 2.6.0.*
only the positioning of popups could have been fixed. they still open at top-left corner. best seen so far was centered on main screen (the state before the last change).

... m2kio !

* i would have preferred wxMac 2.5.5 for that reason.

EDIT: 40 hours, no unexpected issues.

[lionel77]

running since 20h on one machine here. no problems so far.

[sssnake]

Running for 17h hours on my machine, seems ok to me. Thanx a lot for all the effort!

[snac]

4h on my ibook with no problem  

[gobgobgob]

Work without any problem since 3 hours on my G4.

Many thanks for your hard work.


Configuration :
Machine Model:   Power Mac G4
CPU Type:   PowerPC G4  (3.3)
Number Of CPUs:   1
CPU Speed:   1.25 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU):   256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU):   1 MB
Memory:   768 MB
MacosX 10.3.9

[dashaund]

Been running for days on my G4 iMac running Tiger.  Seems pretty solid to me.

[Kry]

Thanks for the input, guys

[dummy00001]

Many thanks for your work ;-)

1. Works great. 3+ days - no troubles (*).

2. What does "File Buffer Size" in core tweaks? is that for egress or for ingress? I have upgraded my home internet connection with uplink speed 32K/s. With my current limit on uplink - 10K/s - aMule almost never register in top. But with limit at 20K/s (tried slot allocation {2,3,4}K/s same results) aMule goes somewhere in 8-12% of CPU load. Thinking logically serving 20K/s should be that burdensome. I have set this "File Buffer Size" to 1.5MB (top) but still the result is the same:  CPU load is ~10% and video playback is jerky. Activity monitor doesn't register overly high hard drive writes/reads - bunch of small ones, so I presume the problem is the seeking.

Is it possible to have two gauges - for ingress and for egress data? Egress buffer is replacement of OS's file cache - it works poorly when applications seek(). Ingress buffer is for received data, so that they can be written say on timer. (mlDonkey has for example feature: one can configure mldk to write: 1) when minimum N bytes were received but 2) at minimum every M seconds. I had them set to N=0.5MB & M=60s) (**)

(*) Crashed once when in search results selected two files and clicked "Copy ed2k to clipboard".

(**) With buffering in place then it would be possible to turn off OS's read-ahead & file-cache - anyway aMule's file access pattern is more than just chaotic - it is controlled remotely ;-)))

[dummy00001]

One more little GUI tid-bit present in eMule, but seems to be absent from aMule.

When downloads are sorted by "Priority", its source are displayed sorted by QR with sources I'm downloading at moment on top. in aMule it happened that A4AF source go first.

And when first time displaying sources by double clicking on download, aMule doesn't sort sources. One has to click column header twice. (And very inconviently clicking twice often causes double click, which does nothing, but forces to click on header again)

[dummy00001]

Originally posted by dummy00001
CPU load is ~10% and video playback is jerky.

All new is good forgotten old. renice helped with this situation.
something like:

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$ renice 20 `pidof amule`Mac OS X doesn't have pidof, but you got the idea.

[m2kio]

Originally posted by dummy00001
CPU load is ~10% and video playback is jerky.

i dont know your hardware, but imho most cpu load comes from the wxMac library rendering the screen output. selecting different tabs for display, e.g. downloads or statistics, has a major effect on cpu load. minimizing the app to the dock has NO effect on cpu load. if cpu load is a problem, then select the stats or the servers tab for display. highest load is on file transfer and shared files page.

install 'Menu Meters', which shows cpu load (and others) very nicely in the menu bar and gives a great impression of current load.

videos do not play jerky for me, even if amule is pretty busy. only if it rehashes files videos become a little unfluent. reasons for beeing jerky for you may be slow Mac or graphics card with poor open gl support. (mine: G4@1GHz+enough RAM+ATI8500, to give you an impression what works) i don't think it comes from hd i/o, because here i currently have less than 1/sec.

... m2kio !