Re: drops received data when receive rate is not throttled

On Sat, December 30, 2006 08:55, a phantom wrote:
> running rTorrent 0.6.4 of debian package.
>
> When peer's send is very fast, and still download rate is not
> throttled in rtorrent (off or high enough), some data seems
> accidentally treated as "queued but forgotten" in despite of actual
> data arrival. In result rtorrent requests same data repeatedly and
> wastes a lot of band width.

This is more likely to be caused by the peer skipping pieces, not
rtorrent. If the peer has a max queue length larger than our max pipeline
size then we end up with piece request that are not actually transfered.

There was some bugs in how this was handled in 0.10.x, so that it didn't
properly re-request those pieces, but it should be working ok in the
latest. Also, the latest version allows you to see how much data is
actually skipped, in the download info screen.

Also, the tracker hanging is probably a libcurl bug. Use the latest which
contains a couple of patches from me.

Rakshasa