Summary: | bittorrent kills bandwidth | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | crusaderky |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo net-p2p team <net-p2p> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | major | CC: | eldad, genone, radek, vapier |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
crusaderky
2003-11-04 10:48:51 UTC
uhh thats the way adsl works ... if you're using 100% of your upload, you're going to get about 1% of your download ... you said yourself that you're uploading at like ~15kB/s which is pretty much 100% of your upload (the rest is for overhead) actually, the "host localhost" just try to resolve using your configured DNS server. try ping 127.0.0.1 instead. I believe it's a upload bandwidth problem like mike said. If I completely saturate my upload bandwitdth with mlDonkey *and* DC++ (on wine), I can still download at full speed (at least 30kB/s). Also, I've noticed that this problem with bittorrent also happens when I'm uploading just 9kB/s. The problem reported by Spanky happened very often with Win98 (mostly with KaZaA), but I've never experienced it before on Linux or Win2k. DC++ has a option called "use small send buffer" that prevents this phenomenon. I've already tried bittorrent-theshadow-5.8.7, but the problem remains. When resolving a host, the /etc/hosts file is first checked, and only if a match is not found the DNS is called. Since "localhost" is in /etc/hosts, it should not use ppp0 at all. "ping 127.0.0.1" is istantaneous. just because bittorrent can completely drop your download to 0 while utilizing upload at 100% doesnt mean it's a bug ... thats simply how adsl works ... and because you think you've completely saturated your download with other p2p programs while download still seems 'to be fast' doesnt mean your upload is 100% saturated if you think it's a bug, then go file something with the kernel hackers asking them to fix their tcp/ip stacks |