Re: [Bloat] tackling torrent on a 10mbit uplink (100mbit down)

2015-06-21 Thread Benjamin Cronce
They say connection but really mean a state. Handshake completed or not, a state must be created. Most torrent clients also self limit the number of half opened connections, as not to kill your $200 firewall with a flood of new states. I've seen a default of between 10 and 50. On Sun, Jun 21,

Re: [Bloat] tackling torrent on a 10mbit uplink (100mbit down)

2015-06-19 Thread Benjamin Cronce
7) transmission ate a metric ton of cpu (30% on a i3) at these speeds. 8) My (cable) link actually is 140mbit down, 11 up. I did not much care for asymmetric networks when the ratios were 6x1, so 13x1 is way up there Anyway, 20% packet loss of the right packets was survivable. I will

Re: [Bloat] tackling torrent on a 10mbit uplink (100mbit down)

2015-06-19 Thread Dave Taht
sometimes I pick the wrong week to actually try to benchmark a protocol in the wild. https://torrentfreak.com/popular-torrents-being-sabotaged-by-ipv6-peer-flood-150619/ On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Dave Taht dave.t...@gmail.com wrote: I just downloaded and seeded 4 popular torrents

[Bloat] tackling torrent on a 10mbit uplink (100mbit down)

2015-06-19 Thread Dave Taht
I just downloaded and seeded 4 popular torrents overnight using the latest version of the transmission-gtk client. I have not paid much attention to this app or protocol of late (about 2.5 years since last I did this), I got a little sparked by wanting to test cdg, but did not get that far. Some