Every serious home-server should have aMule installed as daemon.
Unfortunately aMule, like all p2p programs, can slow down our connection, even if we aren’t downloading a thing or if we have few downloads remaining, because it use the upload bandwidth to share the downloaded files. We can lower the upload bandwidhth limit but if we lower it too much we will consequently download very slowly.

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Instead of continually, manually change the upload limit according to our needs, I use a little script that I wrote, that automatically set the bandwidth limits from the number of downloads in the queue. To use this script we must have the amulecmd utility installed (from source code or from distro packages).
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