frantisek holop escreveu: > hmm, on Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:32:32PM +0100, Han Boetes said that >> The official bittorrent client is rather resource-hungry. Consider >> using rtorrent which is written in c++. > > > i certainly will. > BitTorrent is no doubt a bit slower and bigger in memory, > but i can't see why it makes pf throw up. is it because > of the way python apps access the network? > > the machine itself is responsive, load is load, etc. > only the network starts to crawl, and the pipe is far from full. > > maybe my pf rules are bad, i'll try to reproduce this on > my 4.0 notebook. > > -f AFAIK, the bittorrent client includes a new distributed tracker scheme where it permits the clients to exchange information about files even with the tracker down. With this enabled, many clients try to connect directly to you. I recall having to disable this option when using both the oficial bitorrent client and when using the azureus client. With it enabled, your traffic increases a lot, it looks almost like a ddos. Take a look on this. If your pflog shows you a lot of connection attempts both on udp and tcp random ports from many different ip's, then it's almost certain that the distributed tracker is enabled.
My 2 cents, -- Giancarlo Razzolini Linux User 172199 Red Hat Certified Engineer no:804006389722501 Moleque Sem Conteudo Numero #002 Slackware Current OpenBSD Stable Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Snike Tecnologia em Informatica 4386 2A6F FFD4 4D5F 5842 6EA0 7ABE BBAB 9C0E 6B85 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
