Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:35:37 -0500 From: Jonathan <jonathan@kc8onw.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: ktorrent-3.1.6_1 Message-ID: <49982839.803@kc8onw.net> In-Reply-To: <49972998.9000504@telenix.org> References: <fe3551530902130521q212cdd86l96dcb2019102a3d4@mail.gmail.com> <200902131919.37778.makc@issp.ac.ru> <49972998.9000504@telenix.org>
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Chuck Robey wrote: > I finally found an odd fix, not sure why it worked this way, but I thought to > pass it along on the hope that maybe it will work for you as well as it did for > me. My max upload is about 38KBPS, my max download is about 160KBPS. I'd set > for to -1, so that the u/d rates would be set to infinite, so that the torrent > client would intelligently choose the best rate. But my experience showed that > my max ACTUAL gross download was only about 25KBPS (remember, I was expecting, > from the torrent protocol, to get better than 6 times that.) > > Well, finally losing all hope, I decided to set the upload rate down to about > 20K, so I could use the reserved rate for other entertainments. IMMEDIATELY > upon limiting the UPLOAD rate to 20K, the download rate shot up to nearly my > 160K maximum. I can't understand this, but I tried to move the upload/download > rates around a little bit, to verify the finding: that I just should NEVER set > the rates to infinite, and that (at least in ktorrent) the max download rate > really was attainable. > > I haven't any idea why this worked for me, only that it did do this, reliably. > I may go back to trying previous torrent clients now. What a fine way to spend > the afternoon! Your problem is not related to the one I and the others have. Your problem is caused by your upstream being so saturated with data packets that the acknowledge packets for the downloads are being delayed or dropped. A much more detailed description and more general solution can be found here http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html -- Jonathan
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