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No downloads/very few uploads??
« on: August 20, 2005, 06:17:42 PM »

I'm at a loss trying to figure out what's wrong with my setup.

Amule connects normally, with HighID.  The startup log seems normal, and it runs without problem -- except that it never starts downloading anything, and only uploads very occasionally.  I had it running for 5 days this week, and it had still transferred 0MB.  There are plenty of files in the download queue.

When I initially connect (usually to Razorback 2, it picks), several of the files show a few sources available (30-40 maybe), but then that number gradually drops over the next 5-10 minutes, until it reaches zero.  On my XP laptop, Emule quickly finds hundreds of sources for the same files, and downloads without a problem.  Amule just sits there waiting, forever.  Sometimes it uploads, but never uses all the available bandwidth for uploading.  Usually the upload speed is zero.  The download speed is *always* zero.

As far as I can tell, everything is configured correctly - the ports are forwarded to the correct machines (yes, Amule/Linux is set up to use different ports than Emule/XP) - I get (and maintain) a HighID - the log files show no problems.  I installed via RPM.  I tried creating a new user with a fresh environment and temp/incoming dirs in case something corrupted was causing problems, but that didn't help.

Any ideas?  Things to check for, more info that would be useful?  I'm lost here, and am almost ready to just give up.

From my current session log (only 25 minutes uptime, but previous sessions were 100+ hours with similar results):

Oh yeah - one more thing - the total downloaded data shows 218MB.  The first day I installed it, it worked fine for several hours - dl'ed large portions of most files, even finished a few.  After that, nothing.  I can't find anything that might have changed in the meantime.  Thanks.

      Session UL:DL Ratio (Total): Not available
      Uploads
         Uploaded Data (Session (Total)): 36 KB (832.31 MB)
         Total Overhead (Packets): 174 KB (3K)
         File Request Overhead (Packets): 8 KB (291)
         Source Exchange Overhead (Packets): 160 Bytes (10)
         Server Overhead (Packets): 95 KB (2K)
         Current Uploads: 0
         Waiting Uploads: 0
         Total successful uploads: 3
         Total failed uploads: 4
         Average upload time: 57 secs
      Downloads
         Downloaded Data (Session (Total)): 0 Bytes (218.73 MB)
            eMule: 0 Bytes
            aMule: 0 Bytes
            eDonkey: 0 Bytes
            eDonkeyHybrid: 0 Bytes
            Shareaza: 0 Bytes
            MLDonkey: 0 Bytes
            (l/x)Mule: 0 Bytes
            Other: 0 Bytes
         Total Overhead (Packets): 45 KB (439)
         File Request Overhead (Packets): 3 KB (72)
         Source Exchange Overhead (Packets): 15 KB (7)
         Server Overhead (Packets): 2 KB (53)
         Found sources: 19
         Current downloads (chunks): 0
   Connection
      Average download rate (session): 0.00 kB/s
      Average upload rate (session): 0.07 kB/s
      Max download rate average (session): 0.00 kB/s
      Max download rate (session): 0.00 kB/s
      Reconnects: 0
      Time since initial transfer: 8:54 mins
      Connected to server since: 22:30 mins
      Active Connections (estimate): 13
      Max Connection Limit Reached: Never
      Average Connections (estimate): 15.565253
      Peak Connections (estimate): 89
   Clients
      Total: 25 Known: 25
      eMule: 24 (96.0%)
          v0.46c: 6 (25.0%)
          v0.46b: 2 (8.3%)
          v0.46a: 4 (16.7%)
          v0.45b: 4 (16.7%)
      aMule: 0 (0.0%)
         Version
         Operative System
      lMule/xMule: 0 (0.0%)
      eDonkeyHybrid: 1 (4.0%)
         v0.40.3: 1 (100.0%)
      eDonkey: 0 (0.0%)
      cDonkey: 0 (0.0%)
      Old MLDonkey: 0 (0.0%)
      New MLDonkey: 0 (0.0%)
      Shareaza: 0 (0.0%)
      lphant: 0 (0.0%)
      Compatible: 0 (0.0%)
      Unknown: 0
      LowID: 1 (4.00% Total 4.00% Known)
      SecIdent On/Off: 15 (62.50%) : 4 (16.67%)
      Filtered: 0
   Servers
      Working servers: 77
      Failed servers: 325
      Total: 402
      Deleted servers: 0
      Users on function servers: 7685450
      Files on functioning servers: 687305690
      Total users: 12212933
      Total files: 1178818207
      Server occupation: 5.55%
   Shared Files
      Number of shared files: 60
      Collective size of shared files: 6.25 GB
      Average file size: 106.67 MB
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Re: No downloads/very few uploads??
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2005, 10:19:46 AM »

the files are not stopped or anything? due to missing diskspace for exaemple?

whats your connection settings for max-conn and hard-limt?

are you downloading popular stuff or rare stuff?

and maybe also read here: http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/AMule_is_slow
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Re: No downloads/very few uploads??
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2005, 10:43:11 AM »

You configured different ports from aMule and eMule.  Could the aMule ports be filtered by your ISP?  I suppose that would prevent High-ID.

Is your eMule running while you are trying aMule?  It's a longshot, but could eMule be saturating your line and preventing aMule from getting a byte in edgewise?

What's the topology of your network?
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Re: No downloads/very few uploads??
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2005, 06:02:28 PM »

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the files are not stopped or anything? due to missing diskspace for exaemple?

whats your connection settings for max-conn and hard-limt?

are you downloading popular stuff or rare stuff?

and maybe also read here: http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/AMule_is_slow

No, they are not stopped.  On the web interface, all the files show the '?' icon ("waiting") in front of the per-file control buttons.  It is simply not finding sources to download from.  As I mentioned briefly, it seems strange - when I initially connect, I've watched the transfer screen.  Several files find sources available - maybe 25 each, mostly less, a few more - but most stay at zero sources available, and even the ones it finds sources for, they all gradually disappear over the next few minutes.  So, at login, one particular shows 30 potential sources for download.  Then, it quickly drops to 25.  Then 23.  18... all the way to zero.  Right now I have about 80 files in the download queue.  Most of them show zero sources.  A few show 1 or 2.  One shows 4, one 11.  These are mostly popular files, with hundreds of available copies, quick downloads in emule.

There is plenty of diskspace - 30G+ free in the partition with the temp/incoming directories.  I tried switching filesystems and a fresh set of configs, which also didn't help.

Hard limit is 300, max conn 800 (was 500 until yesterday, when i upped it to see if that might do something, but I pretty much knew it wouldn't help.)

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You configured different ports from aMule and eMule. Could the aMule ports be filtered by your ISP? I suppose that would prevent High-ID.

Is your eMule running while you are trying aMule? It's a longshot, but could eMule be saturating your line and preventing aMule from getting a byte in edgewise?

What's the topology of your network?

No, the amule ports aren't filtered at the ISP - I have non-stardard ports configured for amule, although I have tried it with the standard ones also.

Emule is not running at the same time as amule, and would not be generating enough traffic in my case to saturate the line regardless.  I'm only still running emule at all because I can't get amule to work correctly.

Both machines (the xp/emule and linux/amule) are connected to a Linksys router, which is connected to the outside.

I have in the past had the port forwarding incorrectly configured, which caused LowID.  That is not the case here.

Thanks for the help.  Any other suggestions?  A way to get debugging messages maybe?  The problem is, it seems to be nominally "working fine," except for the minor problem that it never downloads anything ;)
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Re: No downloads/very few uploads??
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2005, 02:18:21 AM »

If it's a debug build, you can enable verbose logging of various kinds in the preferences.  That might be informative.
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