Re: BitTorrent

["Joseph H. Fry" <fryjos@udmercy.edu>]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 00:40 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:

> especially torrents that take long.   Every now and then I come across a 
> torrent which causes my adsl router (Netgear DG632) to stop forwarding 
> traffic.  It shows it is still connected, but I cannot put any data through.
> 
> How is this related to Debian?  Well, it happens only in Debian with the 
> Debian build of BitTorrent (btdownloadheadless).

Haven't seen it with debian or bittorrent in particular... but I know my
Linksys doesn't like it when I open a large number of connections... I
would be willing to bet that your problem is when you try and download a
torrent with a whole ton of sources.

I would browse the documentation for btdownloadheadless in search of a
way to limit the number of simultanious connections... in fact I just
did.  From the manpage:

 --max_initiate number

              number of peers at which  to  stop  initiating  new
connections
              (defaults to 40)

 --max_connections number

              the  absolute  maximum  number  of peers to connect with
(0 = no
              limit) (defaults to 0)

Try and adjust these values and see if it makes a difference... I bet it
will!

Joe