Leachers seem to prefer seeders, is that correct behavior?

jackpal / Taipei-Torrent

A(nother) Bittorrent client written in the go programming language

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Leachers seem to prefer seeders, is that correct behavior? #104

Open jackpal opened 8 years ago

jackpal commented 8 years ago

Someone asked by email:

When I use one node as seeder and another 10 nodes for leecher. I found that all these leecheres mainly get data from seeder and do not exchange data with other leechers. Why?

jackpal commented 8 years ago

I don't know what the proper BitTorrent behavior is in this scenario, nor do I know what our actual behavior is. We might be doing everything right, or we might not. It would be worth thinking about how to test this.

Aaron1011 commented 8 years ago

Is this only an issue for existing nodes in the swarm - e.g. do node which join later properly download from other clients?

liangmingyuanneo commented 8 years ago

Node joined later mainly download from clients that have completed downloading. What's more, when several nodes download together, some of them pause frequently, so this scene usually happen that some nodes have completed downloading and others just start.