Re: [Mldonkey-users] mldonkey agressiveness (resend)

[Pierre Etchemaite]

Le 07 Jan 2003 16:00:10 +0100, Peter Schuller <address@hidden>
a écrit :

> Firstly, is mldonkey supposed to be in a "connected" state to sources
> for extended periods of time? I was under the impression that it would
> connect, get queued, and then disconnect. In my client I see a *lot* of
> sources in the "connected" state.

It doesn't look like mldonkey tries to quickly close connections (certainly
because closing/reopening connection has a high cost, and Unixen usually
don't have problems with many connections open at once ?). Instead, after
asking for a slot, if it doesn't get a response, it waits queued_timeout
seconds and disconnect, or restart dialog with the other peer after
min_reask_delay (or more), or get disconnected by the other peer, whichever
come first.

> I'm consistently
> uploading more than I'm downloading (I always do). Yet mldonkey refuses
> to become more "agressive". 

If you ask faster than the ban delay implemented in many peers, you get
banned. There's no (lawful) way to ask faster than once every 10 mins.

> Even on files with an absolute minimum of availability (only valid
> source seemingly), mldonkey lingers in "connected" states and doesn't
> connect to other un-used sources.

Check in /proc/$mldonkey_pid$/fd how many file descriptors are in use. If
you don't run out of file descriptors, I don't think what you're seeing is
caused by too many connections left open.

That doesn't mean there's no problem.