[Mldonkey-users] Help spreading files by more clever upload handling

[Tom Mraz]

I've posted this into the bugs, but it isn't exactly a bug.

When someone releases a file and has a limited bandwidth the bandwidth 
isn't used efficiently. Even if he
powershares the file there is high probability that he will upload some 
chunk of the file to more than one downloading peer although he hasn't 
uploaded other parts yet.

I don't know the uploading/downloading algorithm exactly so I may be a 
little wrong but I think this proposed behaviour (or something 
simmillar) could help.

The mldonkey could help spreading files by prefering different parts of 
files on upload.

So if there are more peers waiting on the queue and some of them wants 
to download a part which wasn't downloaded recently the upload algorithm 
should prefer them and allow them to download sooner.

The peers which want already downloaded parts would be allowed to 
download only when there are no other peers in the queue.

Even better the mldonkey could keep somewhere a count how many times the 
different chunk was downloaded and prioritize the downloading peers 
accordingly.

Tom