FireXtol Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 So I've downloading a rather large torrent of a series. I have the first season set to high priority, and the rest all set to low. For some reason, a few of the low priority ones download completely except for the first and last chunk.. and NONE of the high priority ones were [even near] complete. This issue appears to affect multiple(three) torrents of mine. In two cases it's three(ya, both cases) of the low-priority files downloading first. In the third it's just one file out of many similarly-sized all-normal priority files which downloaded first(rest are @ ~30-40%).I thought priorities were to ensure priority of download/bandwidth. Am I not correct?It's kind of weird, because I have to increase the priority to download the first and last chunks. Or these odd-ball low-priority files just sit at 99% for quite a long while(other low-priority files become > 90% complete).Just really weird when in a 'sea' of low-priority files, where some are STILL @ 0%... and just a few are: 59.7%(1), or 100%@(2), and the next nearest is 24.5%.I don't recall this happening in older versions, and I almost always have done this method on large torrents. As I recall the first version I used of uTorrent was 1.4. uTorrent 1.8 is the first version I've had issues with. Still can't coalesce writes... which seems to degrade disk performance. But that's for/in another thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 They weren't to guarantee bandwidth. They were to preference pieces. (My thoughts on this whole concept are a 4-page rant on their own sometimes).If there isn't enough availability for high priority files to finish in high priority, they won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireXtol Posted August 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 The strangest part is there appears to be a pattern.... Probably a coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 Do you have bt.prio_first_last_piece enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireXtol Posted August 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 I have bt.prio_first_last_piece set to false. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 The density of the color in the availability bar indicates the actual availability of the pieces. You'll notice that there are spikes of availability in some of those areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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