CTorrent

[lurkist]

Hi,

Just began playing with this and I've reached maybe another step along.

So I've got my .torrent file, I've pointed CTorrent at it, it has confirmed the contents and has put some kind of "virtual" files in the dir I chose.  So far so good.

Now it says it is downloading the files, only there is NO hard disk activity.  Surely there should be some?  I'm not waiting hours for it to do it's thing only to find it hasn't done it's thing!  Where is the data going?  Not into those "virtual" files, that's sure.

Also, it says it's uploading as well.  What exactly?  What data of mine is some bloke getting?


Cheers.

[lurkist]

Just noticed that the default cache size for ctorrent is 16MB.  Normally that would make sense and persuade me that everything is in fact working well, but if you (Zyphoid) have reached 19MB of stuff into RAM and still no HD activity, it's back to the drawing board.

[lurkist]

I think you need to ctrl-c for each file (or maybe folder) within the torrent.

I feel we're so close!  This time I've persevered with a large torrent.  I'm just over halfway through, with 45MB "downloaded".  Ram hasn't decreased, still no hard drive activity, and this is after changing the cache to 1MB (I assumed I would see HD activity after every 1MB, but no).  I'm sure I'll end up with nothing but those "virtual" files at the end of the day.  I'm missing something obvious, I know it! :crazy:

[lurkist]

Piru wrote:

The "virtual" files are in fact the actual files you're going to get. It's just that their content is garbled until the torrent has downloaded fully.

Downloaded at all would be good.  Nothing seems to be saving - not in RAM, the current directory, a temp file somewhere, or those virtual/actual files.
Sort of like a drip filling up a bucket, but when you come back to it the next day the bucket is empty.  Maybe a hole in the bottom, maybe some other little creature is drinking the water, who knows!?!

Piru wrote:

Oh, and please do read the bittorent wikipedia entry

It was very informative and cleared up many issues.
Just not this (seemingly CTorrent related) one.

Cheers

[lurkist]

Okay, feel free to give me a virtual slap (Piru especially!).  The d/l is complete and those virtual files have filled up with real data.

What kind of insane wizardry is this!?!

Oh well, I won't question it because

It works! It works! It works!

Cheers,

lurkist

[lurkist]

@pVC -

Believe me, I stared at that sucker until my eyes went squiffy!  Also I had the dir open in Opus and kept refreshing the page expecting to see the date / time change as it updated, but no.


@zyphoid -

Check your original d/l (the small one which went into ram) it should be complete.  The larger one which is also going into ram is probably stuffed when you run out of ram.

If you are using a gui, bests to stop.  Using CTorrent through the shell worked better, and is not really difficult.  My executable is in SYS:C and here's what I used -

sys:c/ctorrent -s work:TORRENTS -P BT4103 work:WHATEVER.torrent

The "-s work:TORRENTS" just means that the files will end up in a place I can find easily.

The "-P BT4103" is reccommended in the docs as the latest peer ID

Hope this helps.


Now my next stupid question.  When a torrent is only partially available, when I reach the point where no more is available should I just leave it running until more comes along?  Or will more never come along?

OK, OK, I'll read the faqin faq!