[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#701915: bitcoin-qt uses too much outgoing bandwidth

[Noel David Torres Taño]

Package: bitcoin-qt
Version: 0.7.2-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I left bitcoin-qt running one complete day, and I started to notice my Internet connection was slow. nethogs showed me that there were a process using port 8333 continuously wasting near 200KB/s, and netstat told me that the culprit was bitcoin-qt
I expect bitcoin-qt to be nice to other network processes, or to be configurable with a maximum bandwith usage like aMule is. It actually eats almost all my outgoing bandwidth each time I left it running some time. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bitcoin-qt depends on:
ii  libboost-filesystem1.49.0       1.49.0-3.1
ii  libboost-program-options1.49.0  1.49.0-3.1
ii  libboost-system1.49.0           1.49.0-3.1
ii  libboost-thread1.49.0           1.49.0-3.1
ii  libc6                           2.13-37
ii  libdb5.1++                      5.1.29-5
ii  libgcc1                         1:4.7.2-5
ii  libminiupnpc5                   1.5-2
ii  libqrencode3                    3.3.0-2
ii  libqt4-dbus                     4:4.8.2+dfsg-10
ii  libqtcore4                      4:4.8.2+dfsg-10
ii  libqtgui4                       4:4.8.2+dfsg-10
ii  libssl1.0.0                     1.0.1c-4
ii  libstdc++6                      4.7.2-5

bitcoin-qt recommends no packages.

bitcoin-qt suggests no packages.

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