Percentage done incorrect
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:56 am
I use rTorrent myself. Sometimes I see peers who are downloading a lot but where the percentage done they advertise is 0. I'm not actively lookign for them but sometimes I just happen to see it. Usually the peers are from 'unknown' programs according to rTorrent, but yesterday I saw one who uses qBittorrent.
Obviously I changed the ip-address of the peer. The torrent was about 3600Mb so the percentage done should be at least 47% (only from the data downloaded from my system).
Is this an attempt to get more data quickly because other torrent clients think this peer hasn't got any data yet and is new to the swarm? Is this a bug? Does anyone has an idea?
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Peer info:
Peer list
Address: 987.654.321.123:17515
Info Id: -qB2660-qWdrKuk5HgM1
Client: qBittorrent 2.6.6.0
File list Options: 0000000000180005
Connected: outgoing
Tracker list Encrypted: yes
Chunks seen Snubbed: no
Done: 0
Transfer list Rate: 865.9 KB 0.0 KB
Total: 1760608.2 KB 0.0 KB
Is this an attempt to get more data quickly because other torrent clients think this peer hasn't got any data yet and is new to the swarm? Is this a bug? Does anyone has an idea?