Vlad_Drac Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 From the Troubleshooting section of the FAQ:Why does pause mode keep downloading or uploading?It takes a short while for the download and upload to reach 0 (possibly several minutes), since µTorrent must send/receive all the queued pieces first. It does not drop the connections, so small bandwidth spikes may still be seen several minutes after because of BitTorrent protocol overhead.After noticing that Pause didn't immediatelly pause, I thought maybe the current pieces would be completed before pausing, but, is it really what is happening?I tried a little experiment, I paused a torrent at about 59% and watched it, after 3 hours and many new pieces later, it's now at 76.2% and still going, albeit very slowly. Infact, I just saw it start another new peice!I then decided to check the FAQ.Anyone else noticed this?Maybe the FAQ could be changed to reflect this?EDIT:Another experiment, I stopped the torrent at 76.5% and closed uTorrent.I then opened uTorrent and watched with the torrent stopped, mins passed with no traffic.I then started the torrent and immediatelly clicked pause, maybe 1/4 a second max between clicking start and pause.I checked the number of pieces, there were two.I had another look some time later, the download is currently at 78.4% and there are 3 new peices(total 5).Would probably reach 100% on Pause Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 Are you running uTorrent v1.8?Because it sounds like a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 Pause does not request new pieces.The clients you were "downloading" from were likely Transmission. You should pay attention to what clients are sending you data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad_Drac Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Are you running uTorrent v1.8?DOH!My bad, didn't even know about it 'till uTorrent prompted me to update to 1.8 this morning.Was 1.7.7 yesterday.1.8 doesn't appear to have this issue, pause works within seconds.Pause does not request new pieces.It would appear it did, you can't go from 59% to 78.4% of a 100+ Meg download by finishing the 5 or so 256kB peices that were active at time of pausing...And, as already mentioned in the original post, I watched as new pieces started....The clients you were "downloading" from were likely Transmission. You should pay attention to what clients are sending you data.I do pay attention, thanks.No, there was a mix of almost everything, as you noted - Transmission, but also uTorrent, bittorrent, Azureus, KTorrent, BitLord, Opera... you name it, all had traffic at one time or another.Not that it matters much now anyway, as noted above, seems it was v1.7.7Thanks for the replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Huh, I didn't know that was a bug in 1.7.7. Well, that's another reason to switch to 1.8. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad_Drac Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Hehe, neither did I. Dunno how long I've been using uTorrent but never noticed 'till yesterday, but then I rarelly pause.I always keep an eye on my connections tray icon for traffic when there should be none. Dead giveaway for nasties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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