95% dropped output when acting as Ultrapeer
 

Quick question:

I'm acting as an Ultrapeer and all of my connections are incoming.

my incoming leaf connections are having no problem but I noticed on my incoming Ultrapeer connections I have 95 % dropped output under dropped I/O. The connections stay up with no problem at all but is there any reason for all the dropped output?


Tim

hmm weird,

if anything it should be the other way round. my ultrapeers have a good balance between I and O and drop between 10 and 30%, depending on vendor, (more recent limewires seem to filter out more). my leaves have some dropped O as limewire (running as ultrapeer) doesn't forward everything to its leaves.

are you sure you're not running as a leaf?
sometimes limewire automatically reverts to leaf if it doesn't connect to enough hosts after a while.

I'm not sure but I think this is what you would see, if somebody became an ultrapeer who
* does not share anything and does not have any leafs that share anything
OR
* does not share anything and is firewalled and became an ultrapeer by forcing it

so your limewire ultrapeer would pretty much forward no searches at all to that 'lonely' ultrapeer, since it has no files?

makes sense.

there's been a bunch of people asking how to force ultrapeer lately...

Hmm,

I'm sharing 874 files and haven't forced Ultrapeer mode. I am using Norton Internet Security though but I permitted all javaw.exe connections.

It's not you who isn't sharing anything. It's the others. While some ultrapeers are obviously sharing a couple of thousand files with their leafs (60%+ of all searches are forwarded) others don't seem to share anything at all (only 5% or even less of all searches are forwarded). The number of ultrapeers with leafs that don't share much at all is rather high (>50% - just a guess). While saving you lots of bandwidth it also indicates that there are still far too many freeloaders in the network.

and it will stay like that until we have partial file sharing... we don't, currently, do we?

No, we don't have that. The LimeWire developers currently have other priorities as it seems.