Re: [Mldonkey-users] Performance problems (NetBSD)

[kami petersen]

fstat | grep -c mlnet
vs.
ulimit -n

you might wan't to tune up ulimit -n after looking at kern.maxfiles in 
sysctl.conf. you really should be fine with 512 file descriptors - at 
least that's the only (open)bsd specific runtime issue i ever 
encountered. my mlnet daemon uses less than 15 megs so if you're not 
doing any other heavy things you should be fine for basic operation.

did you try pinpointing the problem, for example disabling anything but 
the edonkey protocol?

/kami

Matthias Redlich wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I encountered strange problems concerning the download rates when
> running mldonkey on a NetBSD machine. I tested this issue with the last
> stable release of mldonkey as well as with the current dev-version.
> (fetched from cvs)
>
> (I'm using DSL with 768 kbits/s down- and 256 kbits/s upstream.)
>
> On NetBSD my download rates are *extremly* slow. I tried with the
> default settings of mldonkey as well as optimized settings for my
> internet connection - without any success. My download rate was about 2
> kb/s at the fastest! mldonkey only downloaded about 10 MB in more than
> 10 hours.
>
> Then I installed a linux machine in the same network and the same
> internet connection. I tried to download the same files as on NetBSD.
> And - surprise, surprise - the download rates reached about 20 kb/s.
> (which is very good)
>
> Does anybody know this problem or have an idea how to solve it? Has it
> something to do with NetBSD? Any hints are welcome!
>
> It is the same internet connection for both machines. (linux and netbsd)
> The only notable difference between these two machines - at least in my
> opinion - is the operating system.
>
> Additional information:
> Linux - 1 GHZ; 256 MB Ram
> NetBSD - 166 MHZ, 32 MB Ram (should be enough; 'top' doesn't show any
> problematic processes)
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Cheers,
>