Does Azureus Have A Problem Handling Large Files Ubuntu Server 8.04

[cackles]

After a few days of testing and searching, with many strings but who says any are right, Ive found I cannot successfully complete a torrent of around 2.3GB or larger.

I get to 99.9% over and over again.

I can successfully download anything under a gig, havent really tried between 1 and 2 gig but have tried many over 2GB. The amount of rubbish Ive downloaded and deleted to test is quite untrue.

Ive noticed a lot of people having '99.9% completed' problems and if we change that search to 'large' then the only thing we really get is 'bit torrent is a great way of sharing large files'.

Ive left it on for hours at a time, first time all night, the amount of rechecks must be massive. 20MB connection means it takes about a minute to complete the .01% and then 5 mins for the check ... 10 times an hour for 10 hrs the first time is 100 times for that torrent alone. Ive been at it for several days ...

Ive checked the wiki's, searched the net, deleted, stopped, restarted, tried various files over 2GB, replaced the .jar and its prolly staring me straight in the face but I dunno ...

I have 4 files sitting at 99.9% and the only thing they have in common is they are Matroska .mkv

They do play but having them 100% in the seeding column until I finish my share sounds better to me than having to stop them and look like a leech because of this.

Or is it Ubuntu itself?

[LaRoza]

That is strange.

I use Deluge (even in Hardy) with no problems. Perhaps it is worth a try.

If it happens in Deluge, it is possibly your ISP or your computer.

[hyper_ch]

azureus is almost worse on memory than VISTA... I'd use another client... an extensive gui client would be ktorrent... a more lightweight one would be deluge or transmission... however I prefer a very light, yet very powerfull cli-client: rtorrent

[cackles]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll have a look at them.

I'll also try another HDD.

[kpkeerthi]

I've been having problems (but quite different from yours) with deluge downloading large files.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=788218

It was quite an ordeal to get the 3 GB file downloaded 100%. LOL!.

[cackles]

I remember that thread of yours kpkeerthi when I was searching at first.

Seems weird we are using 2 different programs and yet we're having the same results.

One of the files I was downloading done the whole 'reset' thing too. It decided to scrap most of the file taking it from 99.9% down to 7.5% or 10%, I forget.

Another thing it seems to have done is finish, check, send it back as 99.7%, finish, check send it back at 99.8% then finish and keep going over and over again at 99.9%

Yep, Im that sad and watched it soooooo long Ive seen that happen ... dont say Im not determined

Looks like the last option is to tell it not to recheck ... but I'd rather nail this problem and get it working as it should ... though hey, being a noob when it comes to this maybe out of my capabilities ... hope not.

Did you manage to get yours to 100% kpkeerthi?

[kpkeerthi]

Did you manage to get yours to 100% kpkeerthi?

Yes. Finally. But like I said it was quite an ordeal.

[cackles]

This is becoming an absolute pain in the butt.

Either its the Azureus checking or the way Ubuntu handles inc 'reasingly mental' file creations or large files.

Whatever it is, its destroying my happiness.