[Mldonkey-users] Tuning for search for sources with large download queues?

[Matthias Witassek]

Hi,

with all my downloads active (= not paused) - which are about 300 - 
mldonkey is looking for sources almost all the time. As a result, 
download rate is very poor.

When pausing most of the files (let's say about 90%), the rates rise 
significantly. IIRC someone else posted similar experiences here earlier.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but limiting sources per file doesn't really 
work here, because:
If the limit is 100 then mldonkey would still try to find 100*300 = 
30000 sources. This search would take a huge amount of the available 
bandwith.

I see two workarounds for this:
1. Manually Pausing most of the files and everytime a download is 
finished, resume another.

2. Do this automatically. My idea here is: At startup mldonkey asks for 
sources for all files up to a certain limit of total found sources 
(user's choice). Now all files without sources are being paused. 
Everytime a download is finished, this procedure is repeated (obeying 
the min_reconnect settings).

Could this work?

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