This weekend I found enough RAM to put in one of my boxes called "mp3slave" so that it can run mldonkey and btmanager at the same time again. With all the downloads I have they take up about 300mb and will swap like crazy if they have less than that.
Then the other reason I havn't been using bittorrent kicked in: slow downloads. I had wondershaper up and running but the way I categorized traffic was bad. I knew everythink p2p related was coming from one machine and one user. So on that machine I put
iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner p2p -j
MARK --set-mark 1
And then got tc to put those packets into their own
class
/sbin/tc filter add dev eth1 parent 1:0 protocol ip prio
200 handle 1 fw classid 1:20
So now all the p2p traffic is stuck in one class using no more than 3/4 of my outgoing traffic.
Oh and one more discovery: my outgoing while on dsl was 256Kbit/s, on cable modem it's 512Kbit/s. Quite a step up.
March 30, 2004 (4 years, 9 months ago)
