Re: [Mldonkey-users] pthread MD4 hashing bug ?

[Jarek Hirny]

Hi.

> it seems there's a bug in MD4 hashing when it is done in a separate thread.
> Usually I rarely see files going past the 100% downloaded mark. IIRC 
> these files had bad chunks that had to be re-downloaded. With a pthread 
> enabled 2.02-21, several files at once went past the 100% mark, some 
> even hitting 120 to 130% (on 700MB sized files). "Verify chunks" did 
> reset the downloaded amount to the real one, but these files went past 
> the 100% again.

I  think  it's  rather  about  the  whole  donkey  network.  I've  seen such
situations  for  some  last  3-4  weeks;  I  have also heard complainings of
emule/edonkey  forums/groups.  It's not about hashing in different thread, I
think.

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Jarek Hirny * http://agnus.eu.org * fidonet:2:480/96.666 * icq:92898666
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