Comment 0 for bug 499964

Binary package hint: transmission

After the update to the 1.80 branch of Transmission I am seeing an issue where every torrent will report having downloaded a larger amount of data than the torrents content account for without a corrupt data count to make up for the difference.

As this happens consistently with every torrent I am suspecting a bug is in play.

E.g. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5228644 gives the following numbers when fully downloaded:

Downloaded: 1.8gb
Has: 1.5gb
No additional download due to corruption in this case.

or roughly 130%. Now since share ratio is set for 1,00 this means that you'll upload far more data than you download. Good for the swarm but bad if you are on a limited connection or pay for the data.

As a workaround one can set the share ratio at less than 1.00 to match the additional download.

In the given example I used the magnet link download but I've seen the same issue using regular .torrent files.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 23 21:42:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: transmission (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic
SourcePackage: transmission
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic x86_64