[SOLVED] Slow torrenting on VM?

[brafi]

Hi

I'm new to proxmox, but like the VE and all of the features.
I have an uncapped fiber-connection, and would like to support the linux-community with some bandwidth for torrenting.

But the speeds I get with torrenting, is waaaaayyyyyy to slow, downloading (and uploading)

I have a HP DL360p G8 with only this torrent-machine on a VM. The server is runnning 2x1TB HDD in RAID0, and I only get about 15-20 MB/sec for download-speeds on my 1/1gbit fiberconnection.

Why is this so slow?

I have installed the VM on the same DL360p G8 ("bare-metal-server") and then I get +100 MB/sec.

How do I fix this issue?

 

[oguz]

hi,

a couple of things you can do to debug:

* check if the issue is in the VM only. try running your torrent client on the PVE host for a bit and see if the speed is different. that way you know where to look for the issue.

* if the issue is in the VM, check for any bandwidth limits in the settings (these are unlimited by default, but maybe you or someone else changed it at some point)

* if the issue seems to be in the VM, provide some info about it:
-> qm config VMID
-> OS running in the VM and network configuration of both VM and PVE (usually /etc/network/interfaces but it depends on the distro running on the VM)

hope this helps

 

[brafi]

I have changed the virtual network-card to E1000 (from Realtek) and now I have FULL SPEED!

Thank you for the hint.
I was testing vrom VM to iperf-server with 23Mbit/s download and 511Mbits up.
To the same iperf-server I had +500 UL/DL from the host.

Then tryed to change the network-card and it solved the problem.

 

[oguz]

great!

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