Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:26:57 -0500 From: Jonathan <jonathan@kc8onw.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: ktorrent-3.1.6_1 Message-ID: <499A1261.9000900@kc8onw.net> In-Reply-To: <4999ADF0.2040405@telenix.org> References: <fe3551530902130521q212cdd86l96dcb2019102a3d4@mail.gmail.com> <200902131919.37778.makc@issp.ac.ru> <49972998.9000504@telenix.org> <49982839.803@kc8onw.net> <4999ADF0.2040405@telenix.org>
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Chuck Robey wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jonathan wrote: >> Your problem is not related to the one I and the others have. Your >> problem is caused by your upstream being so saturated with data packets >> that the acknowledge packets for the downloads are being delayed or >> dropped. A much more detailed description and more general solution can >> be found here http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html > > You may be right, I said I didn't understand, but if my upload was supposedly > satured, it makes less sense to me that it never showed as using more that about > 10K (5K for the average, really) and my limit (for both upload & download) was > set to -1 (infinite). I didn't see why that would cause saturation, although > the other results (having the download rate go from very limited to a max value) > do kind of support such an idea. Why would my setting the rates both to > infinite cause saturation? > > Or is maybe the upload rate that's being set being only affecting one use of > upload, but not all uses of upload? That could be twisted in that direction, I > guess, choking off the ability to use uploads for acks, because it's all being > reserved for some other use? Boy, that surprises me, but it's it's what's > meant, it could explain things. If I understand this paragraph correctly, yes, that's exactly what happens. If you check the link I sent earlier it has a detailed explanation with graphs. Jonathan
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