Re: [Mldonkey-users] Swamping by LowID-Clients cause queue dropouts

[Neil Sedger]

Sven Hartge wrote:
> The max_clients_per_second value includes LowID and own connections.
>
> If too many LowID clients connect to you, you will _never_ initate a
> connection of your own.
>
> Because of this, you drop out of the queue of nearly any direct client,
> because you don't reconnect in the given time to renew the claim for
> your slot.
>
> I now increased the max_clients_per_second to 20 (!!) and guess what: I
> am finally able to get some bytes for my rare files.


Yup that seems to help a lot.

Could this also have affected Overnet clients? Because after being up 
for a couple of days I client_stats shows no overnet downloads - and 
very little uploads - although ovstats shows that I know plenty of 
clients (191)...
After changing max_clients_per_second as suggested I now have some 
overnet downloads.

How do we work out the ideal 'max_clients_per_second'? Does it have an 
impact on RAM, CPU load or network load?
(I'm running on ADSL 512kbit down / 256kbit up, dual celeron 500, 384mb 
RAM on kernel 2.4.20 SMP)

ta
Neil