Re: [Mldonkey-users] FAQ, Patches, Stalled-Forever Downloads, Slowness, Settings

[Martin]

lenny bruce wrote...
> and the "suggestions" pages I've seen seem to be written by people
> who have political views insisting we should upload more than we 
> download
> so I don't trust the advice because it seems to be skewed against the 
> user.

No comment here

> Originally I tried max_hard_upload of 12 and max_hard_download of 192...
> but I discovered max_hard_upload over 9 disconnects my PPPoE connection
> and max_hard_upload over 7 kills my download speed.

mldonkey has some issues with not caring about those limits (in
current cvs its even worst...)
settings depend on your intentions for the p2p networks (want to leech
/ want to share)

> I don't mind uploading but I'm doing a lot more uploading than 
> downloading.
> I thought the benefit of being able to download from so many people at 
> once
> was that each person didn't have to upload incredible amounts...

sum(network_upload) == sum (network_download) 

> "Casino" (in three 800 MB pieces) has been hanging around for NINE DAYS 
> now!

mldonkey has some problems with well spread files...but hey it works
great on rare files :)

> how do I get them to move?

give them some time....

> I think I've taken bad advice from this guy's distribution:
> http://homepage.mac.com/michelmoreau
> he said to get rid of all files/folders in your distrib folder
> but for the files.ini file and the incoming and temp folders
> and also kill ~/.mldonkey_gui_messages.ini and ~/.mldonkey_messages.ini
> does this mean I'm throwing away the credit I've earned for uploading 
> so much?

Yes and no...
No because the credit you earned for uploading is saved by the clients
you uploaded to....(otherwise you could get yourself unlimited credits :)
So you cant loose them by deleting some files on your harddisk...
But finally yes: if you also remove you downloads.ini your client_md4
will be lost and a new one will be created...then nobody will
recognize you as the guy uploading so much...and your credits are lost.

> is this guy's advice nuts? how do you people upgrade your distrib 
> folders?

Distib folders? You mean the cvs-source-folder or the mldonkey-home
dir (should not be the same....!)
mldonkey homedir will only be updated by moving a new compiled binary
in there and overwriting the old one....
how to update cvs....well you know that...

>  I bet all of this guy's advice is wrong!

it depends...

> I got patches from here
> http://concept.free.free.fr/mldonkey/patches-against-CVS2.02/
> is this Pango's site? is this somebody else's patches? Who is Pango?
> Why do we need patches for something that's in CVS in the first place?

Yes, its pangos site, they are somebody elses patches and hes a guy
hanging out here and writing patches in crazy ocaml that maybe
included in cvs (sometimes) (soon)

> max_name_len  -- is this why the names are truncated in the GTK-GUI???

no - in telnet and web-interface only (AFAIK)

> use_file_history = false   -- is "true" here really a memory hog?
> save_file_history = false     I find MLDonkey is a memory hog anyway

It is...

> max_opened_connections -- what kind of connections? UDP?

all network connections

> compute_md4_delay = 0.500000 - another setting I changed on 
> questionable advice

.5 works fine for me too...400mhz pII with 256mb takes a load average
of 1.2 then... (its the delay between the computaion of two md4 hashes
of your temp-files on startup...setting too low puts higher load...too
high will let it take hours to hash your files)

> max_sources_per_file = 600  - too many?
> min_left_sources = 200      - left? right? good? I don't know

depends....what files your downloading (popular/well spread) and how
many of those

> enable_server = true - if that's valid then explain this:
> Exception Failure("Network.connected_servers not implemented by 
> Donkey:server") in print_connected_servers--- Connected to 2 servers on 
> the Donkey network ---

you want you mldonkey to run as server? still experimental...

> could somebody explain it...
> I understand the GTK-GUI but the web interface isn't obvious
> in the downloads section there's a heading of P/R/C over two checkboxes

Let me guess...mozilla? I remember there were some problems with the
web interface and some browser...AFAIR not mldonkeys fault....

> RESHARE FILES
> MLDonkey has trouble letting go...

known bug

hey...all comments written with best intentions but well...its late at
night here...ok its early in the morning thou...damn

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