Re: [Mldonkey-users] overnet generating ton of outgoing bandwidth

[Norbert LATAILLE]

Le mer 08/01/2003 à 19:38, Brett Dikeman a écrit :
> Silly question #2:
> 
> Sitting doing nothing, just connected to the edonkey and overnet 
> networks(not uploading or looking for anything), the client uses up 
> about 12-13kB of outgoing bandwidth and about 2kB incoming.  It's all 
> overnet traffic- and since nothing's being shared or downloaded, that 
> means it's protocol overhead.

That's really interresting. Could you please add more detail, I would
like to investigate ?
- set verbose_overnet to true, and tell us if you see A BIG NUMBER of
packets sends. What type ?
- try ovstats. How many searches do you have ? How many queries have
they done ?

Hope you use a recent version of mldonkey.

> 
> That is a LOT of traffic. A LOT.  Like, I usually set my client to a 
> max upload of 20-25kb/sec and most of it is going purely to overnet 
> protocol stuff.
> 
> What's the deal?  Also, why isn't there a control for overnet?  I 
> simply stopped forwarding overnet through my firewall, but there 
> doesn't seem to be a way to turn on/off overnet.