Re: [Mldonkey-users] high speed download (9000kb/s)

[Klaus Imgrund]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 00:03:03 +0100
Martin <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Klaus Imgrund wrote...
> > address@hidden wrote:
> > > >I had a d/l going at about this rate today.Couple of strange
> > > >things: The d/l was paused.My line is 600/300.Ran for about 5
> > > >minutes and downloaded 290 mb in this time.
> > > >http://planeta.terra.com.br/informatica/jaqass
> > > >Anybody got the slightest idea what was going on there???
> > > Did you "recover_temp"?
> > I got no idea what that is.I did copy the file to another directory
> > and deleted it from /temp.It shows 290 mb of disc space used and I
> > got no idea what is in there. Ok - lets say my ISP screwed up.That
> > would explain the d/l rate of 9000 kb/s but how could I get this out
> > of a paused d/l? Plus at the time I paused that d/l I had two
> > sources.I can't see two sources upload at 4500 kb/s each at the same
> > time or for that matter myself landing on the surface of the sun and
> > drink a cold one<big smile>. I'll try to find out what happened with
> > my ISP next week but they aren't too bright.
> 
> I got that effect too. What i did was the following:
> * started to download file X
> * got a lot of mbs for this file downloaded....
> * upgraded mldonkey and deleted files.ini
> * did recover_temp and mldonkey searched for the hashes and hashed the
> file* mldonkey found out that i already had downloaded the first chunk
> - and that just after hashing for a few seconds (== big downloadrate)
> * mldonkey continued hashing, found more and more present chunks
> without even downloading (you said your dl was paused).
> Just by hashing the file got more and
> more completed. Thats the only way mldonkey can show such amazing
> download rates (except if you got such a line....)
> 
> Maybe something like this happend to you too. If you recovered an
> partial downloaded file, mldonkey found out there are already present
> parts and counted them as downloaded.
> 
The thing is that it was a new d/l.Never downloaded a bit of it.
I'll try to figure out what is in that 290 mb.