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Idle Internet activity in uTorrent ?!

rafi

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rafi Advanced Member

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When the client is idle - no active torrents, DHT - disabled, RSS - inactive, no UPNP - why do I see a small ~2K download activity every 5 minutes or so ? Shouldn't it be flat 0 ?

rafi Advanced Member

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as I said - "DHT DISABLED" ... scraping ? for stopped torrents ?are you sure ? I don't see the seeds/peers # changing . Anyways' if there aren't any other "good" reasons - they should try to avoid all activity, or at least guide how to configure for that to happen... well, I can live with the 2K... just woundered... I forgot why ... :-)

rafi Advanced Member

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only the dev's can say that. The first SHOULD work only on startup. The second - I don't know what it is for ... it seems to me that Lord Alderaan was write and it has to do with "scraping stopped torrents" . I disabled "ask tracker for scrape info" and it seemed to make it close to 0. It is very easy to check for any dev, so no sense to guess...

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Actually, I wondered this as well. I too disabled everything to stop the traffic.

It started with uT hanging on exit of the program (Vista32). So I started clicking the stop button and waiting a few minutes.

However, even after 30 minutes, my firewall reported traffic in and out from uT dispite any settings. I verified this by locking down the firewall and sure enough uT wanted permission to access the internet.

WHY?

Also, I still have problems shutting down uT. When I successfully shut it down (this is rare), it is still running as a process that is impossible to stop, short of rebooting.

WHY does it continue to run as a process.

Lord Alderaan Advanced Member

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Also don't forget you still get incoming connections with handshakes even if you refuse them in the end. Maybe if you turn on some logger stuff you can find out what exactly.

Oh and yeah scraping stopped torrents is disabled by default. I was just grasping because I forgot what exactly was causing it. :)

@slingblade01:

About the firewall stuff: You sure it wasn't just the registering of listening ports or incoming connections?

About the endless process see moogly's post.

rafi Advanced Member

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incoming are random. I was referring to periodic traffic (so it must be initiated by uT) . I think you were right, and it was due to this scraping stop torrents thing. Where do you control it ?

Ultima Advanced Member

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Preferences > Advanced > bt.scrape_stopped

And as a reminder, just because the seed/peer counts don't change doesn't mean nothing was downloaded from the tracker -- it could simply be that the trackers served the same information.

Firon Advanced Member

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slingblade01, if you use Zone Alarm, it has a nasty bug that'll prevent µTorrent from shutting down. It basically holds the process hostage in the kernel.

rafi Advanced Member

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Ultima, it's false here. It looks like that only when I disable pref>bittorrent->"ask tracker for scrape info," it stops . Should it be like that? I'll check again.

rafi Advanced Member

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yes. With all off (DHT etc) it's not a big burst , just about 1-2K , and it looks like every 5 min. I'll add the log in a few minutes (all flags on). it looks like only incomings and disconnects.

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It's not a big thing, so I suggest to leave it for now....

typical log:

[2009-03-04 11:29:36] 78.5.227.178:64232 [uTP]: Disconnect: Timed out

[2009-03-04 11:29:39] Incoming connection from 84.208.88.132:59425

[2009-03-04 11:29:39] 84.208.88.132:59425: Disconnect: Connection closed

[2009-03-04 11:29:39] 78.5.227.178:64232 [uTP]: Disconnect: Timed out

[2009-03-04 11:29:43] 87.222.160.170:1559: Disconnect: No such torrent: 9CB48798A1B5C9E201FA76CF388468243A1AA708

[2009-03-04 11:29:43] Incoming connection from 87.222.160.170:1656

[2009-03-04 11:29:44] 98.237.140.254:60591: Disconnect: No such torrent: AFBBE34995ECDF64B09F4F71A07676810EF31396

[2009-03-04 11:29:45] 78.5.227.178:64232 [uTP]: Disconnect: Timed out

[2009-03-04 11:29:53] 92.230.66.249:53096: Disconnect: Timed out

[2009-03-04 11:30:02] Incoming connection from 88.218.151.89:49779

[2009-03-04 11:30:06] Incoming connection from 69.230.128.24:42875

[2009-03-04 11:30:11] 69.230.128.24:42875: Disconnect: No such torrent: 9CB48798A1B5C9E201FA76CF388468243A1AA708

[2009-03-04 11:30:13] 87.222.160.170:1656: Disconnect: Timed out

[2009-03-04 11:30:13] 88.218.151.89:49779: Disconnect: Connection closed

[2009-03-04 11:30:21] Incoming connection from 212.235.15.53:59534

[2009-03-04 11:30:21] 212.235.15.53:59534: Disconnect: No such torrent: 4D35CA4CE91AAFA216D5AA099BE658349A268A2F

[2009-03-04 11:30:25] Incoming connection from 76.182.18.25:56057

[2009-03-04 11:30:26] 76.182.18.25:56057: Disconnect: No such torrent: AFBBE34995ECDF64B09F4F71A07676810EF31396

[2009-03-04 11:30:30] Incoming connection from 78.94.161.7:44339

[2009-03-04 11:30:32] 78.94.161.7:44339: Disconnect: No such torrent: AFBBE34995ECDF64B09F4F71A07676810EF31396

[2009-03-04 11:30:37] Incoming connection from 82.139.14.6:1474

[2009-03-04 11:30:39] Incoming connection from 121.55.245.4:45244

[2009-03-04 11:30:39] 121.55.245.4:45244: Disconnect: No such torrent: AFBBE34995ECDF64B09F4F71A07676810EF31396

[2009-03-04 11:30:42] 82.139.14.6:1474: Disconnect: No such torrent: 4D35CA4CE91AAFA216D5AA099BE658349A268A2F

[2009-03-04 11:30:48] Incoming connection from 98.237.140.254:53675

[2009-03-04 11:30:55] 98.237.140.254:53675: Disconnect: No such torrent: AFBBE34995ECDF64B09F4F71A07676810EF31396

rafi Advanced Member

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well , I posted that just to show that those are randomly spread, and I am talking about a periodic small bursts every 5 minutes. But let's let it be... no big deal ...

kotey Newbie

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My settings:

Preferences -> BitTorrent -> Ask tracker for scrape information = Disabled

Preferences -> BitTorrent -> Enable Local Peer Discovery = Disabled

Else, DHT, PEX are enabled.

For a single completed, seeding only torrent, I still saw at random interval 'download' activity, as per say ~2K.

Can't remember seeing it before 1.8.x though...

I've turned off scrape for waaay too long ago, didn't use it as to save me some number of connections (I queued a lot of stopped torrents all the time, around 100+) therefore I'm pretty sure that it ain't scrape (checked number of connections, logs on my router for confirmation)

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