Re: [Mldonkey-users] mldonkey agressiveness

[Goswin Brederlow]

Peter Schuller <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a few questions regarding mldonkey/edonkey behavior.
> 
> 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. The reason I'm wondering if this is
> correct is because of the following.
> 
> At the moment I have about 6kb/sec download rate. My upload rate is 25
> (and was 75 through the night). In other words, I'm consistently
> uploading more than I'm downloading (I always do). Yet mldonkey refuses
> to become more "agressive". It's basically leaving lots of sources
> un-used. Even after manually triggering a retry/reconnect, the amount of
> conenctions goes down over time (seemingly leaving the old "stale"
> connections, meaning the actual rate is not affected).

mldonkey will not connect more than max_clients_per_second sources per
second. It won't become more aggressive even if it could due to enough
sources to try.

The default is iirc 1 and I use 5 or 10 usually.

MfG
        Goswin