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High "wasted" on a torrent download, with no hashfails
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Mar 15, 202621482 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Recently I have downloaded a game patch from a torrent. The total patch size was ~528 MB and the torrent has shown 235 MB as "wasted", with 0 hashfails. Some other things I remember about the download: my client is uTorrent 2.2.1 While downloading, there were ~250 peers connected, the torrent had ~…
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Fix for: High "wasted" on a torrent download, with no hashfails
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When you download from torrents your client requests blocks of data from multiple peers. Usually the first to reply gets used. If others also reply with the block that data is most often discarded, or wasted. It's nothing to worry about and is part …
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