Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: edonkey network question

[Dirk]

Sven Hartge wrote:

>"Juan C. Gallardo" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>So I'm guessing that I can have a setting problem, but MLdonkey has so
>>many parameter that I don't understand that I don't have idea even what
>>to show to the list.
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>First of all: Don't _ever_ set max_connections to more than 200.  If
>you, for example, use 800, mldonkey will open many connections to peers,
>but because of the high network load, it won't be able to complete a
>single one, thus leading to very low download speeds.
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>It doesn't matter if you're on a 128_K_bit/s or 622_M_bit/s link, the linux
>system won't cope with more than about 200 connections.
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AFAIK the sane number of connections depends on how many fd's (file
descriptors) your system can handle... try looking at
/proc/sys/fs/file_max.. on my hardware it shows something like "52427"
which means my system can handle 52427 fd's (or sockets) at the same
time... you can change that with "echo 1024 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max" or
so...

but this is pretty meaningless if your hardware sucks or the files you
share suck (meaning nobody shares them)...

Dirk