[Mldonkey-users] Traffic Shaping

[Alon Lischinsky]

Hi,

I've been running Mlnet 2.4rc7 in my debian sid box for some time,
and while it has behaved very well (fast and stable), allowing it
to use almost maximum bandwidth (about 25/12 Kb/s in my 256/128
Cable link) causes problems in my MSN and SMTP connections.
I've been trying to use the wondeshaper script to allow other
services to perform normally, but to little avail. The problem
seems to be that when I list the donkey ports (4662 and 4666)
as low priority, connections to sources become erratic and short-
lived; I cannot connect to more than 2 or 3 sources at a time, and
then only for less than a chunk. OTOH, giving them bulk priority
kills my latency (pings to my DNS server go up to 11000 ms!). I don't
think this is a bandwidth issue, since I have tried all the range from
very conservative settings (half nominal bandwidth) to the recommended
90%. 

Most people seem to fins this script useful, however, so I think
I may be missing something. Could someone enlighten me as to what
may be the problem? I've tried to understand the code that handles
connecting to sources, but I don't grok OCAML.

TIA,

Alon