[Libtorrent-devel] peer speed readings

[Jari Sundell]

Charles Clark wrote:
> I'm running rtorrent 0.6.0.
> 
> In a swarm where I'm the only non-complete peer, according to
> the tracker's website, the peer speed seems to be wrong when the
> peer is uTorrent. Here is the peer listing (IP column cut for
> privacy reasons). Notice that the "PEER" speed is 10.2 for every
> uTorrent peer and 0.0 for all Azureus. I'd expect them all to be
> 0.0. Is this a bug with rtorrent, or uTorrent, or maybe I just
> don't understand what that number means like I thought I did?

The peer speed is calculated according to how many HAVE piece messages 
we receive, and some peers like to send these right after connecting 
even after they've sent the full bitfield.

Rakshasa