General Question Orbiter 2016 torrents

[Notebook]

If this is the wrong place for this, please move.


I've been playing with torrents for a week or so, just the six Orbiter 2016 ones.

Hasn't been much fun, put the Deluge program on my main machine, a two year old HP Envy. Went and left it, when I got back it had re-booted. It did this a few times, so I sat and watched it. Does a Blue screen of death thing, too quick to read. Took Deluge off, and it stopped. Then I got a "BIOS is reloading, or something. Left it to finish, and its been ok since.
Much the same happened on a much older machine, though that was re-booting before.

Just for fun, put BitTorrent on both(it seemed to be popular), and same thing.
Took all the torrrents of both machines, and tried both on my five year old HP Netbook, bittorrent seems stable, its downloaded all six, but doesn't like "minor bodies" item, has a red bar through it.

I presume its just me?

N.

 

[jroly]

Reason minor bodies has a red bar is because there's no seeders, the red means it's unavailable.

Could be software issues but it is strange nowadays that software would cause BSOD as Windows is pretty good at stopping programs crashing the system. You could try Utorrent or another bitorrent program. If you try Utorrent, you do not need to redownload the program files, just put the files in the download directory and then download the torrent file and utorrent will scan them and start seeding without redownloading them. Same should be true of Bittorrent, move your minor bodies file to the download directory and it will start seeding.

 

[4throck]

Never had a problem with Utorrent or any other such program.
Just leave it on and wait for the download.

Your problems may be related to overheating. Torrent download can be bit disk/processor heavy.

 

[Notebook]

Thanks jroly and 4throck, looks like its just bad luck. I'll try your suggestions on the netbook, that's still chugging away.

Edit: Re minorbodies, its going green evey now and then, so I guess its happy.

I'll give it a cople of days and see how it goes.

N.

 

[4throck]

You can try to run some diagnostic like Speccy (free version):
http://www.piriform.com/speccy

It will tell you hardware temperatures. Look at the values while the PC is running.
Really easy to spot overheating (orange or red temperatures).
And easy to solve by physical cleaning of the PC or moving to a cooler location.

 

[Notebook]

Bittorrent and Deluge have been running happy for the last week now, seems to have quietened down. The HP laptop is still not happy with either, so I guess its something unique to the machine.

Just for info, what is the "seed/peer" ratio used for? I've seen it vary between .5 to 14.
Just curious.

Thanks, N.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

Information nothing more, it is also only the ratio of the swarm you have connected to so is highly inaccurate as a judge of the health of the torrent as a whole.

 

[Notebook]

So a swarm is not the whole of the torrent?

N.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

No, just those clients that have connected to the same trackers or have connected to you via DHT. There could be other clients connected only via DHT that are not on a tracker that your client is using. In theory all the clients in a swarm should be all the clients sharing a torrent but there are ways of limiting who can connect with each other (look up private trackers).

 

[jroly]

A peer is node who has not got the full torrent yet, it is in the process of downloading but also uploading to other peers the information it has already downloaded, a seed is a node that has the full torrent, it is no longer downloading and only uploading. Higher ratio of seeders is always better.

 

[Notebook]

Thanks Evil Onyx and jroly. Nicely explained, I'll leave the torrents running till it calms down. Seems to have dropped of a lot in the last few dayes.

N.

 

[jroly]

Well I don't fully understand the DHT clients all that well, all I know is sometimes when a torrent is dead according to the tracker, DHT clients/seeders sometimes appear and begin transferring.

What I like about torrents, even if you just started downloading, you can contribute to the network by uploading what you have just downloaded and it is that what helps distribute the data very well.

BTW those BSOD can indicate a hard drive problem, I would backup any data you need from that computer.

 

[Notebook]

Good advice, it has been running warm recently. I might have a look around and see how easy it is to open it up and have a dusting. Built a few PC boxes, but I don't muck around with laptops.

N.