<![CDATA[Bewildering torrent statistics]]>Would an Administrator or Moderator please explain the confusing statistics for a torrent:

Shortbus (2006)    http://tracker.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=14429

Although "Added" today (2009-09-10 18:31:57) and receiving 1389 "Hits",
It has been "Snatched 707426 time(s)"
with "Totaltraffic 469.79 TB"

Huh?

Could this be related to the fact that, although the torrent's "private" flag is set,
the "dht_backup_enable" flag is also true (under "azureus_properties") ?

]]>https://community.gaytor.rent/topic/1900/bewildering-torrent-statisticsRSS for NodeWed, 08 Apr 2026 15:27:01 GMTThu, 10 Sep 2009 21:32:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Bewildering torrent statistics on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:08:17 GMT]]>@enamo:

I'm glad I'm not alone in wondering how 4 billion snatches happened.

So are we - it is a couple of client programs (especially multi protocol clients) which do not follow the BitTorrent protocol. That is why we urgently warn to use such "wannabe" programs and only recommend capable client programs.

Alas it is not really easy to filter out such wrong protocol messages on our side 😞

]]>https://community.gaytor.rent/post/67129https://community.gaytor.rent/post/67129Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:08:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bewildering torrent statistics on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:49:19 GMT]]>I'm glad I'm not alone in wondering how 4 billion snatches happened.

]]>https://community.gaytor.rent/post/67122https://community.gaytor.rent/post/67122Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:49:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bewildering torrent statistics on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:04:55 GMT]]>If you look at the list of people that downloaded a torrent, you will see that some people are listed many, many times.

I remember 1 torrent where the uploader was the only one listed as snatching {finished downloading} the torrent and he was listed nearly 200 times. He had just changed from one client to another and suddenly this happened.  Once he switched to uTorrent {per my recommendation} he quit having the problem.

]]>https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60414https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60414Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:04:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bewildering torrent statistics on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:31:11 GMT]]>Yes, but our tracker relies on what the members torrent clients are reporting to it, see the already given answers:

@Uwe:

…
Now the snatched number is certainly wrong. This comes from bad torrent clients, wrongly reporting to our tracker. Some of this effects you can see in the snatched list by seeing the same member having it snatched multiple times.
...

and

@mgr:

There was another issue (not really clear if we found all cases yet) : Some clients erroneously send a FINISH instead of a STOP signal when you stop seeding ….

]]>https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60413https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60413Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:31:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bewildering torrent statistics on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:17:28 GMT]]>There is definitely something wrong.  If you search/sort the torrent list by the number of "snatches", the top torrents have over 2.5 BILLION "snatches".  Maybe I'm misunderstanding what "snatch" means (no pun intended) – doesn't it mean the number of time it was downloaded?

]]>https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60411https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60411Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:17:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bewildering torrent statistics on Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:26:46 GMT]]>There was another issue (not really clear if we found all cases yet) : Some clients erroneously send a FINISH instead of a STOP signal when you stop seeding 😞

And such values can happen in more than a year (bumped torrent) 😞

]]>https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60229https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60229Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:26:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bewildering torrent statistics on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:47:50 GMT]]>I do think that you should check your stats or there is another issue.

This torrent can not have 8428202 downloads

http://tracker.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=12419

]]>https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60214https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60214Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:47:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bewildering torrent statistics on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:48:21 GMT]]>Thanks for responding, Uwe,
but I still do not understand how torrent clients can be so "bad"
as to produce such a bizarre discrepancy between
the number of "Hits" and times "Snatched" for any torrent.

Also: why is that "dht_backup_enable" flag allowed?

]]>https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60064https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60064Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:48:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bewildering torrent statistics on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:09:27 GMT]]>The explanation can be found in the first sentence of the description:

Original upload: 2008-12-28 11:33:10

Which means this is an old torrent having been "refreshed", "promoted" or "bumped" up to the top of the listing.

Now the snatched number is certainly wrong. This comes from bad torrent clients, wrongly reporting to our tracker. Some of this effects you can see in the snatched list by seeing the same member having it snatched multiple times.

]]>https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60057https://community.gaytor.rent/post/60057Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:09:27 GMT