Upload credit not showing on profile

[newhag21]

I have uploaded around 80MBs of the first Eva movie (first torrent I have dl'd here).  It is not showing up in my status bar.  I am able to seed a lot more, but first I want to make sure my contribution is counted due to the fact that my ISP has a pretty low bandwith cap.     

What are the fixes to this problem? thx 

[Xiong Chiamiov]

It takes a little while for upload to be shown on the site.  IIRC, the tracker was down for a bit earlier today, too.

When you were seeding it, was it shown as active on your userpage?

[tomoya-kun]

I have uploaded around 80MBs of the first Eva movie (first torrent I have dl'd here).  It is not showing up in my status bar.  I am able to seed a lot more, but first I want to make sure my contribution is counted due to the fact that my ISP has a pretty low bandwith cap.     

What are the fixes to this problem? thx 

What client do you have?  In uTorrent, you have to right click torrent and hit update tracker to force an update if it does not work

[newhag21]

i took some screenshots

the "update tracker" option isn't open to me ;/

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2yxf87a&s=7
you'll see my upload for the 2 files i have from Bakabt is in reality 146MB in this pic

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2rdi1xt&s=7
on my main page it says 57MB

i'll wait until after the "update in" interval and post results


edit: oh the horror! he uses VLC! (it's actually my main music player x.x)

[blubart]

the update tracker option shouldn't be available - that's alright. updating the tracker if it's working wouldn't make any sense either.

with 146/57 MB uploaded the number is simply to low to make any kind of qualified statement. it could be that your connection or the tracker was temporary down so a little bit of the upload amount wasn't transmitted.

all my torrents have generally a 5-10% discrepancy between what my client reports and what the trackerpage lists (client 66GB, tracker 63GB ... etc.) - bittorrent was never meant to accurately track those stats.

[x5ga]

The "lost" upload amount is most likely to a combination of 3 factors: tracker downtime, the data overhead necessary for the bittorrent protocol, and lost/bad packets. By their powers combined, your "sent data" is greater than the amount of data registered by the tracker.

[newhag21]

yeah i'm fine with a lil lost information


hopefully i can slowly accumulate to 2:1 ratio

it'll be hard with my ISP's 60kb/s upload limit tho ;p

[Freedom Kira]

Another case like this... Seriously, a ~60% stat loss is a problem. I know it's not 100% accurate but it should be better than 40%...

Is anyone looking into this yet? Just wondering. I think this is the 6th or 7th or so reported case, with probably many others out there.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

It's difficult to solve a problem you can't reproduce.

[x5ga]

When you're talking <100MB traffic, you can't be accurate here. Some torrents can be made from 4MB pieces. If only 1byte gets transmitted wrong, that whole 4MB piece will fail the hash check, and will be discarded at the receiving end. This will cause the receiving client not to send back a "OK" signal for that piece, and the tracker to not monitor it.

[Freedom Kira]

There have been reports in the gigabyte range, where several gigabytes were reported lost.
I was under the impression that your download is reported whether or not you receive all the pieces in good condition.
Also, people have reported having finished torrents from scratch with a final tracked download significantly lower than the file size, sometimes less than half.

Xiong: Fair enough, I guess. I'm more under the impression that we don't really try to reproduce the problem, though, or at least pay attention to whether or not we have the same problem. I know I haven't been making an effort.