Things to think about when tuning libtorrent for high performance

An user on the libtorrent mailing list had the following problem: I’m doing some testing for a libtorrent application that will use a small number of peers (often just 1 seed and 1 downloaded) and high bandwidth delay product links (in the hundreds of Mb/s and 100ms+ round trip). I’m unable to get more than […]

command line speed test, see how fast is your server’s connection

Save the following script in a file called speed_test #!/bin/bash # Requirements # sudo apt-get install lftp iperf lftp -e ‘pget http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.3/ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso; exit; ‘ make sure the file is executable: sudo chmod +x speed_test Once you have installed lftp and iperf make sure you have the script somewhere in your $PATH. The script basically downloads […]