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Share your share ratios (do we do this here?) (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Feels very redditty, which is why I'm asking...

Also, what are total buffer size (what does it affect) and session waste (what does it affect)? qbittorrent-nox on Linux.

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[–] 17 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Idk about the buffer size, but the waste is basically when a part of the file you’re downloading gets lost/corrupted so you have to download it twice

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    It can also waste some data when a peer disconnects in the middle of sending a block, causing your client to request the block again from zero. The part of the block that was previously received becomes wasted data.

    Additionally, near the end of the download, if a peer is transferring a block really slowly, your client might request it again to a faster peer, causing a bit of waste too.

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