[Bug 499964] [NEW] transmission consistently reports having downloading 115-130% of the required data with no corresponding corrupt download data numbers

[David Nielsen]

Public bug reported:

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

** Affects: transmission (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid regression-potential

** Summary changed:

- transmission consistently reports having downloading 115-130% of the required data with no corresponding corrupt dowload data numbers
+ transmission consistently reports having downloading 115-130% of the required data with no corresponding corrupt download data numbers

** Tags added: regression-potential

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transmission consistently reports having downloading 115-130% of the required data with no corresponding corrupt download data numbers
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