Thu 05 Apr 2007 11:47:21 AM UTC, original submission:
I just want to say what a great job spiralvoice & the devs are doing on mldonkey. It's an excellent program except for one annoying bug it's always had.
First some background ...
I've been using mldonkey with the kmldonkey front end since version 2.8.1 or maybe even earlier. I also use the kmldonkey applet on the taskbar that shows the total upload/download speed. This bug has always been present since at least 2.8.1 and probably has always been there.
Why do I think this bug is important. ?
It's important because it does not show downloads that are in progress when in fact they are, and I believe that new users of mldonkey stop using it because it gives the impression that mldonkey does not download as quickly as other clients. Also note kmlapplet is probably not installed by newbies until they realize it's available.
Observations.
ok, here's an example...
I'm downloading 21 files ...
MLapplet says my upload/download speeds are 10.0/8.5
the html mldonkey gui says for all 21 file '-' (ie nothing) the total download speed for all the files as displayed at the top of the html mldonkey download page is 8.5, ie the same as mlapplet (as you would expect) ... so if we have 8.5 being downloaded why does the rate for each file say nothing is being downloaded.
... and it gets worse ...
For some reason when a rate is shown against a file it has a speed of 18.0. This seems to be a magic number because it keeps showing this number ... not 17.0 not 19.0 not even 17.9 always 18.0. It's as if the speed for that files goes over 18.0 it always shows 18.0
Now, of course the KMLdonkey GUI shows exactly the same ridiculous download rates.
I know the HTML GUI auto updates every 12 ? seconds however that should not matter because the rate should then be averaged over the last 12 seconds. Say for one of those seconds the file in question downloaded 35kb/s and 0kb/s for the remaining 11 seconds the rate should read 2.9kb/s. This would then reflect far more accurately the rate for each download.
In summary..
The total download rates for all the files seems to be accurate for both the mldonkey html display and also the KMLdonkey applet.
The download rates for each individual file are completely inaccurate or don't even show any value at all, even when a file is actually being downloaded.
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