Can anyone explain this (TBH weirdness)

PC_Arcade

I went into the preferences part of the web interface for emule and upped the max connections from 240 to 260, I also removed the speed limit on downloads. then the connections went crazy, downloads and uploads dropped to 0.0 and the graphs above are the result.

Anyone know why??

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:30 pm **Post subject:**

OK, fixed that and my downloads have now increased to pretty much max (unlike the 50/60% max I was getting before).

How??

Major upgrade, looks like emule no longer likes running on slow machines with <512Mb ram.

Working perfectly on a 2400+ with 512Mb, nothing to do with my router or anything else I'd been blaming my underperforming mule on :evil:

satan · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:28 pm **Post subject:**

It's that horrid clients.met.30c.bak file.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:34 pm **Post subject:**

I dunno, I tried lots of other mods too, I just think emule is now too bloated to work properly on slow machines

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:47 pm **Post subject:**

is this vanilla? Try vanilla or pawcio for low system usage.

Avoid KAD, BHM or + based mods like the plague if its system resource problems. Looks more like a net connection problem from that screenshot though, set the connection limit lower.

Good advice is also:
Turn off all logging
Turn off save part files
Put graph delays to a very high value
Turn off queue listing

Which all reduce resource usage drastically. Regardless, that's happened a few times to me, back in the day, was bt being ropey though.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:51 pm **Post subject:**

TBH certainly has problems on slower machines, like I say, I upgraded the "mule machine" and now all is well, the settings are the same as ever, but whereas I was getting 40-50Kbps I'm not getting ~120-130Kbps down.

I think it's purely a resource issue.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:54 pm **Post subject:**

i think your right about programs going the way of bloat as they evolve. Emule is certainly heftier now adays, what with leeching, anti-leeching, anti-anti-leeching, anti-anti-anti-anti-leeching, schedulers, web servers, dynamic blah blah manager, extra networks, pointless quick stats, irc, etc. I wish all emphasis would stay with stabilising and optimising the core.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:57 pm **Post subject:**

I agree 100%, Emule developers (and some users) are paranoid about leechers, I personally couldn't care less about 'em, if there are leechers on the network then the impact they are making is negligable. Time and resourses would be FAR better spend on other more sensible measures.

Can anyone explain this (TBH weirdness)

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