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[Eru]

Hi all

after running aMule for 2 days I noticed that it is much slower than the xMule.
I have set my connection limits to 16kB/s down and 4 kb/s up,  max sources per
file is 80 and max connections is 75.
My DSL connection has 256kB down and 64kB up.
With these settings I can surf the internet quiet well from other machines.
With xMule I get around 400MB download per day.
If I set the max connections to more I'm getting troubles with my netopia ADSL
router, which starts to crash and hang....

With the same settings in aMule get less than 100MB download per day, which is more
than 4times slower!!!

Does anybody know what settings should be changed or is this an aMule problem?

Any help apriciated
Regards
Eru

[BigBob]

Hi,

I have not noticed any changes of performances ...

And as long i remember your the only one repporting this behavior ...

A++

[Eru]

Hi BigBob

hmm, at the moment I'm experimenting with the two versions.... The last 4 days
I was running xmule, know I'm trying with amule for some days...

I wonder what the "Sources" values in the transfer section mean and how the
are influenced by the "Max Sources" and "Max Connections" in the Preferences.

If I see something like "20/80 (2)" in the "Sources" then this means there are 80 sources, I am queued on 20 of them and currently I'm downloading from 2 sources, right?

Eru

[BigBob]

To be  honest i have never really take care about sources column in transfer window, but here is an attempt to explain what does this field say :

Example :


- I'm currently downloading a rare file (this mean there is only very few sources) ...



so, for a total of 4/7(1) -> 4 including 1 sources, there is 4 sources from i'm Downloading OR i'm "On Queue", in this example, i have 1 for dl & 3 "On Queue", then on a total of 7, the rest (7-4) equal to sources i'm asking ...

Hope this help ...

A++

[Eru]

Hi BigBob

ahh, that's what it looked like.

what I still don't understand how the clients deal with their queues. And when (TCP / UDP) connections are opend and closed.

Let's say client A wants a file from client B. So i assume:
1.) A asks B for the file
2.) B sets A into it's queue at Rank R
3.) ....? ? ? stay the tcp connection open all the time
4.) after some time: B sees A is next on the queue
5.) reconnect, or what?
6.) A downloads from B

Gruss
Eru

[romv]

If you try to see the queue panel (right-click on the upload panel and click "view queue"), there is one column info called something like "number of connections" (don't have the program in front of me). That would mean, in my mind, that A reconnect to B regularly to see where in the queue it is. SO the answer to your step 3 is no. The TCP connection is not kept dring all the waiting... The step 5 is still a mistery for me... Is the reconnection initiated by A or by B ?

[Eru]

yes I see, there is a column called "Asked". And there is another one called "Entered Queue" that shows values of several hours.
So for step 3.) it looks like A reconnects to B about all 20 minutes.

Yes, what happens at step 5.) would be interessting....

Eru