aMule : makes computer hang after a few hours ??

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 10:14 -0800, Colin Brace wrote:
> I beg to differ: I have been using aMule for more than a year and the
> version I am currently using (2.0.2) is *extremely* stable; at the
> moment, the current uptime for aMule running on my desktop system is
> more than three months, sharing many files.
> I think the problem you
> are having comes from trying to download too many files at once; it
> takes a certain CPU overhead to process each of those (calculating
> hashes etc) and it all adds up. Try scaling back the number of active
> downloads to a couple of dozen at most.


Yes I think you are right. I had about 350 files in the "transfer" tab,
and two hundred people downloading from me at the same time.
I just updated Dapper and rebooted the machine (new kernel), and as a
consequence restarted aMule 2 minutes ago, and all is well, since only a
couple files are being downloaded right now, and nobody has yet had the
time to connect to me. 
I really didn't think that managing 500+ files would cause that much CPU
load on a 1.5GHz CPU. The other problem is that the aMule keeps
UPloading stuff to other people (fair enough for P2P s/w ;-), and this
eats all my (limited to only 128kpbs) upstream bandwidth, which keeps
internet and Synaptic from working properly/fast, regardless of how much
downstream B/W is actually available. I tried to reduce the upstream B/W
limit in the aMule preferences but it doesn't seem to take effect.
I though that plenty of RAM was enough for P2P, but looks like
processing power is also on order then. I am waiting 3 or 4 years before
changing my 4 year old motherboard. I read an article about Intel
working on efficient/low power quad (even 8) core processors for 2008
and on. Since some Desktop motherboards can take two processor sockets,
that makes for 8 or 16 CPU's ! That should be enough for P2P ;-)
I hope that by this time, Linux/Ubuntu will integrate as standard, some
kind of utility to easily manage available Bandwidth, so that the user
can enforce things reliably, rather than observing powerlessly system
responsiveness go on holiday so to speak...


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Vince