On Monday 28 April 2003 20:28, Stef Coene wrote: > 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? In my experience the connections never get fairly distributed. I can reproduce this just increasing the number of connections per 5 seconds to 20 again. The effect is imediate. I get connection timeouts in HTTP (more apparent, i'm sure other protocols suffer too) and have to reload a series of times before the connection "goes" and even then it then fails for some other elements in the page.
