> On Monday 28 April 2003 00:20, Ricardo Jorge da Fonseca Marques Ferreira > wrote: > > I finally figured out what in emule was ruining my network. > > > > I tried everything and nothing worked. I was always getting timeouts. Until > > i went into the extended settings in emule and changed connections per 5 > > seconds to 5 from the default of 20. Miracle. It now works great. > > > > So apparently lots of connection attempts in a few seconds is an effective > > way of starving all other machines behind a linux gateway even if you're > > using SFQ. > Mhh. I wonder how this can be. Some tcp connection specialists out here? > Is it so that after a long time the connections are fair distributed or is > there always a starvation of the other connections? > > Stef It could be because SFQ only equalizes flows. If you open lots of connections then, it means every connection will get worse. If this is the problem, this will not happen with ESFQ, afaik. --- John Bäckstrand
