[Mldonkey-users] mldonkey slows network connection down

[Johannes Segitz]

Hi,

every time i start mldonkey on my linux router it gets impossible to use
the internet connection after a while.

Before i start mldonkey

,----[  ]
| PING www.heise.de (193.99.144.71): 56 data bytes
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=0 ttl=247 time=69.6 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=68.4 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=71.5 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=73.8 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=4 ttl=247 time=71.3 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=5 ttl=247 time=67.8 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=6 ttl=247 time=67.4 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=7 ttl=247 time=69.1 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=8 ttl=247 time=68.7 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=9 ttl=247 time=67.5 ms
`----

,----[ w ]
|  10:45AM  up 4 days, 16:08,  2 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.25, 0.62
`----

,----[ free ]
|              total       used       free     shared    buffers        cached
| Mem:        191112     180652      10460          0      13920        136512
| -/+ buffers/cache:      30220     160892
| Swap:       248968      23692     225276
`----

Some minutes after i started mldonkey (nice -n 19 ./mldonkey)

,----[  ]
| PING www.heise.de (193.99.144.71): 56 data bytes
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=0 ttl=247 time=8199.3 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=8446.0 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=8204.3 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=8425.9 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=4 ttl=247 time=8801.2 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=5 ttl=247 time=8756.0 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=6 ttl=247 time=8875.8 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=7 ttl=247 time=8373.7 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=8 ttl=247 time=8587.7 ms
| 64 bytes from 193.99.144.71: icmp_seq=9 ttl=247 time=9184.5 ms
`----

,----[ w ]
|  11:26am  up 4 days, 16:49,  2 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.14, 0.33
`----
,----[ free ]
|              total       used       free     shared    buffers        cached
| Mem:        191112     186720       4392          0       9116        119776
| -/+ buffers/cache:      57828     133284
| Swap:       248968      24684     224284
`----

It doesn't seem to be a load problem (PII 400, 192 MB Ram). This is a
linux system (Debian Potato), kernel 2.4.18. Any ideas?

TIA
Johannes
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