Godfoster Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Okay, basically, my understanding of the Pause Button was that if you paused a torrent, it would finish sending and receiving the pieces that it had already requested, and stop requesting new pieces. I was watching a torrent I had paused the other day, and instead of working like I have described, it continued requesting new pieces for download! So, which is the correct operation of a "Paused" torrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#Why_does_pause_mode_keep_downloading_or_uploading.3F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godfoster Posted February 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 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.I have read the FAQ entirely, and I thought I understood what it said. To me, it says that it is finishing the sending and receiving of requested pieces (requested by you and requested from you). However, I kept a torrent paused for over 20 minutes and it was still requesting and downloading new pieces, just at an incredibly reduced rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICleolion Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Personally i have noticed this behaviour plenty of times. But as you said it is at an incredibly reduced rate and isn't a problem. If it is a problem then i suggest you press STOP, instead of PAUSE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godfoster Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Yeah, eventually I just hit STOP, I just thought that if it finished handling all ingoing and outgoing requests, than nothing would be lost or interrupted when I hit STOP. *shrugs* It's nothing serious or anything, just that it didn't work the way I thought it would. I'm not sure which way users prefer it work, so all I can really say is that I would've preferred that it work the way I had outlined above. Just my two cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon4 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Well if it keeps the connection idle for too long, peers drop it, which defeats the purpose of pausing it! I think this is an intended function - a "keep-alive" function that works by maybe requesting a piece from a peer shortly before it anticipates a timeout.After all... Pause isn't exactly part of the BT protocol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godfoster Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Ah! Falcon's explanation makes much more sense. Now I can understand why it would continually request pieces, albeit at an incredibly reduced rate from normal. ^^;; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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