Hi. I'll make this brief. I'm running KTorrent 2.2.2 on Kubuntu 7.10.

When I change the max upload speed via the right-click menu in the system tray it seems to "forget" and set it to "unlimited" about every other time I adjust it. I'm guessing it's a bug, but it doesn't seem to be affecting any other users. Is this issue known or am I alone in this?

Also, I would absolutely LOVE an Auto-Speed plugin similar to what Azureus comes with. Any plans for this or is there one available I just can't find?

Thanks for your time and the excellent program!

EDIT: I guess I should have put this in the other category? They are very similar...

Changing the speed via the tray icon, seems to be working fine here. Are you running the bandwidth scheduler plugin ? That can change the limits.

As for the auto speed plugin, I'm not really familiar with that, what does it do ?

I can confirm that changing upload limits via systray icon didn't work properly for me in some recent svn revision (it was being set to unlimited instead of a given numerical value). It works okay in 2.2.2, though.

George wrote:As for the auto speed plugin, I'm not really familiar with that, what does it do ?

If I remember from my Azureus days... It was a plugin that would ping a predetermined address such as google and when that ping got too high it would lower the speed until it was acceptable again. I believe initially it was only used with the upload, but they may have changed it to include the download too.

The idea behind it is it would allow you to still browse the internet without much of a slowdown and the client would go back up to max speed when you were done. How they did it... I've got no clue.

Again this is info from since before I switched to ktorrent, so it may be completely wrong. I've always just set my max upload speed to a point where it wouldn't bog down my line.

Jeremy

Thank you for the replies!
I'm not sure how the auto-speed plugin worked, but when it ran, I could browse or do whatever else without slowdowns, ever, as bassmadrigal described.

As for my issue with the resetting of up-speed limits, I am attempting to compile the source myself to see if that helps but I get stuck with this error:

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checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!

I haven't had trouble compiling programs, kernels, or drivers before. Any ideas?

I believe you need to make sure you have kde-base and kde-lib installed. I don't know if they have development versions for those, as my distro includes all development versions with the release.

I installed kdebase-dev and kdelibs and that error ceased. I get a few more errors running make and make install, however. I'm just going to give it up and deal with this issue until it somehow gets fixed (hopefully) in 2.2.3.

Thanks for all your help, everyone.

The bug is present in KTorrent 2.2.2 built from a up-to-date Gentoo.

Bug is also present in the upcoming 2.2.3 svn version, when you hit 5KB/s(the lowest in row) it automaticly switches to setting unlimited. This applies to the download speed setting too.

EDIT
Seems other settings there have this same behaviour too.

I don't get this.

What kind of settings are you using and which plugins have you got loaded ? I have got to be able to reproduce this.

ktorrentrc:

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[BottomToolWindow]
ViewLastWidget=Status
ViewWidth=527
hidden_on_exit=true

[ChunkDownloadView]
ColumnOrder=0,1,2,3,4
ColumnWidths=114,122,173,170,173
SortAscending=true
SortColumn=0

[FileView]
ColumnOrder=0,1,2,3,4
ColumnWidths=940,104,133,120,141
SortAscending=true
SortColumn=0

[HTML Settings]
AutomaticDetectionLanguage=0

[KFileDialog Settings]
Recent Files=$HOME/Desktop/slax-5.1.8.1.iso.torrent

[KTorrentView]
ColumnOrder=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
ColumnWidths=100,100,100,100,100,100,100,100,100,100,100
SortAscending=true
SortColumn=0

[KTorrentView-0]
ColumnOrder=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
ColumnWidths=448,200,100,100,100,100,100,117,100,100,100,100,100,125
SortAscending=true
SortColumn=1
filter_bar_case_sensitive=false
filter_bar_hidden=true
filter_bar_text=

[KTorrentView-1]
ColumnOrder=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
ColumnWidths=472,233,0,100,100,0,100,0,100,100,0,100,104,129
SortAscending=true
SortColumn=1

[LeftToolWindow]
ViewWidth=198

[LogViewer]
LogViewerWidgetSize=100,50

[Open-with settings]
CompletionMode=5
History=konqueror,kmplayer

[PeerView]
ColumnOrder=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
ColumnWidths=125,158,178,94,105,63,72,111,41,52,88,75,93,76
SortAscending=true
SortColumn=7

[UI]
button_Bestanden=
button_Chunks=
button_Connection statistics=
button_Files=
button_Log Viewer=
button_Logweergave=
button_Peers=
button_Snelheidsstatistieken=
button_Speed statistics=
button_Status=
button_Trackers=
button_Verbindingsstatistieken=

[ViewManager]
current_views=Alle torrents

[WindowStatus]
Height 1200=1201
Width 1920=1921
hidden_on_exit=true
menubar_hidden=false
statusbar_hidden=false

[WindowStatus Toolbar DownloadToolBar]
IconText=IconOnly
Index=1

[WindowStatus Toolbar KMdiTaskBar]
Hidden=true
IconText=IconOnly
Index=2
Offset=-1

[WindowStatus Toolbar mainToolBar]
Index=0

[WindowStatus Toolbar search]
IconText=IconOnly
Index=2
Offset=-1

[downloads]
completedDir=/home/martijn
dhtPort=49154
dhtSupport=true
externalIP=
httpTrackerProxy=
lastSaveDir=/home/martijn/
maxConnections=100
maxDownloadRate=520
maxRatio=1.03
maxTotalConnections=600
maxUploadRate=120
numUploadSlots=7
port=49152
saveDir=/home/martijn
tempDir=/home/martijn/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/
torrentCopyDir=/home/martijn
udpTrackerPort=49153
useEncryption=true
useSaveDir=true

[general]
sysCON=15
sysDHT=15
sysDIO=15
sysGEN=15
sysINW=15
sysIPF=15
sysPFI=15
sysPNP=15
sysRSS=15
sysSCD=15
sysSNF=15
sysSRC=15
sysTRK=15
sysWEB=15
useRichText=true


Plugins activated:
import ipfilter infowidget

Now I'm on 2.2.2 and I managed to hit it. Wanted to set upload limit from 10 to 20 and it set unlimited.

Perhaps it somehow depends on kdelibs/kdebase's version? I'm running 3.5.8.

What's your KDE version, George and others who do hit it?

KDE 3.5.6

Gutsy, so 3.5.8 here

It is http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151289 caused by
SVN change 691544
Workaround: always strip ampersand before converting to int. Patch here