RE: [Mldonkey-users] Connected to no edonkey server

[Loon, O.P. van]

>
>Hi, 
>
>On Thursday 16 of October 2003 13:36, vaab wrote:
>> Precedent version of mldonkey(2.5-3) was so slow that i've stopped using
>> it (never more than 5 Ko/s, and idle most of the time). I kept coming on
>> the website waiting for changes. I'm happy to see that the project is
>> not dead.
>>
>> I've upgraded to 2.5-4, and download seems a little bit better. Not
>> extraordinary (2 to 10 Ko/s almost continuously), but it has completed
>> several files.
>> 2.5-3 had the bad habit of draining all my memory (512 Mo RAM + 120 Mo
>> cache), and after that was killed by the system. (a Linux in LFS flavour).
>>
>> 2.5-4 seems better... while i didn't really tested it in the same
>> conditions :  i figured that when limiting the download file limit
>> (max_concurrent_downloads) to 20, I stopped the memory expansion to an
>> average of 80 Mo AND assured a rate to a good continuous 2 Ko/s. That's
>> really better than 2.5-3. I used to have max_concurrent_downloads=100.
>>
>> I remember days when i downloaded at 50 Ko/s with this connection and in
>> the same network conditions (same route/firewall/rules...) with the
>> first mldonkey 2.0. (I'm on ADSL 512/256.)
>>
>> I've posted in different forum without much results, only certitude is
>> that it wasn't the only problem of mldonkey. Thus, i continuously
>> witnessed some post claiming 50 Ko/s or similar good health of their
>> mldonkey.
>>
>> Don't misinterpret my mail. This is not to blame mldonkey. Maybe just a
>> way to say that I hope a lot on the future of the project. I've choosed
>> to stay on the train. I might not be the only one that have similar
>> feelings as i saw in the recent "getting frustated" thread on this list.
>>
>Same here. I tested amule for a few days (due to "client too old" msgs in 
>MLdonkey) and it's no match for mldonkey. I didn't download a single file in 
>3 days. I couldn't wait to see the new version and I'm glad that project is 
>ALIVE!
>
Me too !!
>
>> I don't know if this is normal, but mldonkey is rarely connected to any
>> edonkey server. The server list contains pages of edonkey servers. And
>> when i ask to connect to more server, this has no effect... If this info
>> can help to find bugs ?
>
>I did upgrade yesteday and currently I'm not satisfied with number of 
>connected servers on eDonkey network. MlDonkey does not seem to connect to 
>any server if bittorrent is enabled. I had one bittorrent download when 
>migrating to 2.5-4. Though bittorrent itself was downloading just fine with 
>approx, speed of 15k.
>

Confirmed. I also get know connections with most eDonkey servers with 
bittorrent enabled. Only with a some specific ones, and then again only 
sometimes.

>BT download itself is another strange thing. This file I'm DLing is over 2Gigs 
>and is currently at 101.4%!! Dl size: 2362253312 bytes of 2317242368 bytes
>Most of the chunks are verified and some in the end are partial or missing. 
>File keeps on downloading over 100%, but not after I restart MLdonkey then it 
>falls below 90% and continues there.
>
>I'm about to diss this file and disable BT plugin. 
>>
>> thx for reading my bad english.
>>
>> Vaab
>>
>>
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>rgrds, himba
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