Re: [Mldonkey-users] Hello to all of this List and a first Question

[Goswin Brederlow]

Axel Gruber <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello List-Users,
> 
> I´m new on this list so pleas forgive me if my questions are asked
> some time ago...
> 
> I use ML-Donkey since 3 Weeks - and i like to say "thank you" to the
> Programmer for this great tool.
> 
> At the first days everything works fine i have downloaded some big
> files (400-700MB) and it works pretty well. I had DL-Rates between
> 10 and 50KB/s
> 
> But since 2 Weeks i can´t download any files complete and only
> Datarates between 0.9 and 6kb/s.

Whats your client name? Is it mldonkey_*? Those are blocked at most
servers. Also check the availability of the file. Maybe they are
incomplete because noone has that one missing chunk.
 
> I also noticed that mldonkey kills my complete Internet-Connection
> and the whole SERVER. (takes all resources)
> 
> So i thought it´s a misconfiguration of mine - so:
> 
> Some days ago i have deleted the whole directory and made a new
> installation of MLDonkey (newest Version) but i still have same

Release or cvs version? What ocaml version? Binaries or self compiled?

> problems: (MLdonkey runs at the SERVER wich is Fileserver and
> DSL-Router - PIII650 384MB Memory)
> 
> - Mldonkey kills the complete Internet-Connection + CPU-Power +
> Memory of this Machine "TOP" show^s: R 98.1 78,3 311:11 mldonkey

Did you limit the up/download rates to reasonable values? Its measured
in KB/s not byte/s. Do you have swap? If so everything is probably so
slow because mldonkey is swapping. The mldonkey 1.16 release had
memory problems, maybe its just that.

Also pppoe had a bug quiting when your upload is flooded as p2p can
easily do. Debian has fixed that but I'm not sure if the upstream
author has incorporated those fixes or if other linux distribution
have added it. The effect is that your dsl dies and is blocked for a
few minutes, you should notice that.
 
> - If i delete the SERVER.INI mldonkey takes some "new SERVERS" from
> web and connect immediatly to 3 or more SERVERS - after some time
> the SERVERS.INI grow up to over 14000 SERVERS and then mldonkey
> don´t connect to any server then i also have no downloading of files
> (only very small parts)

If its swapping its just allways waiting for the harddrive and can't
go any faster. 14000 servers is quite few but should be fine. I have
10000 currently without problems and mldonkey only uses 100MB with 500
files downloading.
 
> I like to ask if i make something wrong ? Or is this a BUG ?
> 
> I would not ask - but at the first time of the installation i have
> realy good DL-Rates and success - but now since 2 Weeks i don´t get
> 1 file complete...
> 
> Perhaps anyone can help me ?
> 
> CU
> 
> Axel
> 
> PS: i get many of this error-Messages in the log:
> 
> Exception sendto failed: Connection refused in udp_send
> Exception sendto failed: Connection refused in sendto
> ADDR_INET (80.133.106.66, 4665)
> Exception sendto failed: Connection refused in udp_send
> Exception sendto failed: Connection refused in sendto
> ADDR_INET (217.0.110.49, 4666)
> Exception sendto failed: Connection refused in udp_send
> Exception sendto failed: Connection refused in sendto
> ADDR_INET (217.83.192.123, 4666)
> Exception sendto failed: Connection refused in udp_send
> Exception sendto failed: Connection refused in sendto
> ADDR_INET (217.233.198.174, 4666)
> Exception sendto failed: Connection refused in udp_send
> Exception sendto failed: Connection refused in sendto
> ADDR_INET (217.228.15.245, 4666)

I think that just means the servers is no longer accepting
connections, probably offline. They are all other dsl users so thats
not suprising.

You can try to reduce the initial score for a server and the max age
so servers get kicked faster.

MfG
        Goswin

PS: If you have Debian try "deb ftp://mrvn.homeip.net/ sid main" in 
/etc/apt/sources.list