[TriLUG] azureus/bittorrent slowdown

[Carl Crider]

Could be an ISP throttle. I'd suggest testing with another client
(Transmission).
On Dec 18, 2012 7:53 PM, "Joseph Mack NA3T" <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> For a couple of years now, I've left my desktop machine running as a
> bittorrent node. When I start it up, it uploads at the set max speed. Then
> after a couple of hours to a day, it slows down to 10-25% of max_speed. If
> I let it run for a couple of weeks and monitor it with rrdtool, I see the
> speed come up to max now and then but mostly runs at 10-25%. However every
> time I stop azureus and restart it, it runs flat out for 6-24hrs.
>
> I wonder what's causing the slowdown. Could it be my ISP (Frontier)
> looking for bittorrent packets? The logs from azureus are full of problems,
>
> eg
>
> Exception while processing the Tracker Request for
> http://tracker.bittorrent.am:**80/ <http://tracker.bittorrent.am:80/>
>
> whether it's running full speed or 10% and I have no idea what to do about
> any of them (if indeed they are problems I can fix).
>
> Anyone got any ideas why azureus slows down after a couple of hours?
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
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