Amule client for wl500gp

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UPDATED 8/1/2007

I've managed to provide the amule-package for wl500gp if somebody is interested . I think that 32MB RAM and 266Mhz CPU is absolutely minimum for amule but you can try it on different models.

Starting from scratch (optional, depends on your current configuration):
1 Switch to oleg-optware feed (src unslung http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...g/cross/stable in /opt/etc/ipkg.conf)
2 ipkg update
3 install uclibc-opt libstdc++ and reinstall any already installed packages
*4* install wxbase (2.8.0 from the oleg-optware feed)
*5* install amule (2.1.3 from the oleg-optware feed)

First run (needed for creating configuration's files, there is a script in /opt/etc/init.d that will start amule later) :
1 export HOME=/opt/share/amule
2 run 'amuled'
The program will exit leaving /opt/share/amule/.amule/amule.conf that must be configured. I recommend to disable IPFiltering for saving resources. Provide some servers from http://ed2k.2x4u.de/index.html as server.met file.
Don't know why but only few of those servers work for me. Or connect for ex. to DonkeyServer No6 [62.241.53.15:4242]
3 Forward ports.I have problems with the udp-forwarding when the amule runs at wl500gp that acts as a router - kademlia is always firewalled (?)
4 Run it again to test the configuration.
5 Reboot.

After some testing I've noticed that the program runs quite stable. amuleweb is php-based application, it's slow and takes a lot of CPU and RAM so maybe you'd to delete it and use a remote gui or a command line tool instead.
Amuled (2.1.3) after 10h of intensive tests seems really stable - it's transfered 2-3GB without a single crash.
Memory usage:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 30140 28764 1376 0 740 9972
-/+ buffers/cache: 18052 12088
Swap: 498004 15376 482628

Note:
1 Unfortunately MuleDebug.cpp (aMule) is using functions that are not supported by the compiler so the exception's logging has gone away.
2 The Amule package is dynamically linked against libstdc++6. I've run into some serious problems trying cross-compiling with libstdc/uclibc++. WxBase is cross-compiled.

I also manage to compile an ocaml and mldonkey package but it takes too much resources, however it runs stable. It's a shame that ocaml doesn't provide a native-compiler for the mips-linux architecture.