Seeds/Peers Counting

[stalkerok]

How does libtorrent count seeds/peers? These values do not reflect reality at all and show complete nonsense.

This is definitely not normal behavior.

[thalieht]

This question belongs in the qBittorrent repo, at least until you learn which libtorrent counters these numbers represent, you've read the docs about what they're supposed to do and if it's not what you expect, you can come here. But since we're already here... Numbers outside the parentheses are straightforward Seeds: num_seeds Peers (leechers): num_peers - num_seeds

I guess you're here for the numbers inside the parentheses: Total Seeds: (num_complete > -1) ? num_complete : list_seeds Docs: num_complete, list_seeds

Total Peers (leechers): (num_incomplete > -1) ? num_incomplete : (list_peers - list_seeds) Docs: num_incomplete, list_peers

[stalkerok]

@thalieht, all this does not explain such numbers, sometimes it seems to me that these values ​​are absolutely random. Let's take the last torrent: Seeds 0(0) Peers 0(2999) Do you think there are really 0 seeds on this torrent and there are 2999 peers somewhere? How to find out real information about seeds, leechers and peers on the seeding torrent from this data? I think something is wrong here.

[arvidn]

I think something is wrong here.

The step after thinking this is to find out the exact definition of the counters and then investigate "ground truth" and see how the counters compare. For example, if the numbers reported by a tracker don't match reality, displaying those numbers don't necessarily mean there's a bug in the client. The tracker might just be responding with wrong numbers, or the tracker might not have a complete picture of a swarm.

[stalkerok]

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ae8913663c5972d33f149240423aabc8acd2a02e&tr=https%3a%2f%2fbt.t-ru.org%2fann You can see for yourself how real these numbers are.

[arvidn]

I don't understand what the bug report is. I think this is meant to be a bug report. There's a screenshot of a bunch of text and numbers. What's wrong with it?

[stalkerok]

In the Peers (Пиры) column, the values are incorrect, too large, there can’t be such huge numbers, such a number of peers. I don’t know how the client found so many of them, they can’t be there, so I think that something is not working correctly on the libtorrent side (perhaps qbittorrent). In the Seeds (Сиды) column it also shows incorrect values, it shows 0, but they can't be 0. I specifically gave a magnet to check how many seeds and peers are actually on this torrent. How can I understand that there are enough seeds on this torrent and it can be deleted from the client if the client shows that there are 0 of them?

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