GT server clock
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Hi family
I would like to know if GT server clock is keeping time correctly.Attached pic 1 shows it's 23h32 in Germany
Attached pic 2 shows it's 23h33 in GermanyIn pic 2, we notice that the 1st leecher in the list (bear…) checked at 23h20, when this same leecher checked at 22h50 in the 1st pic : this means his last checking was done between 23h32 and 23h33 german time.
Question : why his last checking time in pic 2 doesn't indicate 23h33 (german time) instead of 23h20 ?
I always notice this delay of 13 min between any time showed in GT "ckecked" colum, compared to the real time.For instance, we notice the seeder in both pics checked at 23h10
But you'll have to wait until 23h53 (german time) to see the change : his check column will then display 23h40 :cry2:
Btw this torrent looks amazing…its size is nearly 42GB
Gladly the uploader noted in description : "Seeded with a 100mbit connection"
You ask: how much is it in KB/s ?
I was so lazy to calculate that I quickly googled
;D8 bits = 1 Byte
100 bits = 12.5 Bytes
100 kbits = 12500 Bytes = 12.5 KB
100 mbits/s = 12.5 MB/s !
I'd like to have a look at his average upspeed during his upload !!!
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I approved that 41.95 GB Torrent after discussing breaking it up into smaller segments. This is the way he wanted it uploaded so I approved the torrent.
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Hey Michael is here
Imho you did well, because there are 659 separate files in the torrent, and the different movies (about 1GB each) can be selected one by one. Also users who want to download the smaller bears models vids are able to do it etc…3 hours now since it started to seed, and his UpSpeed shows 4MB/s, wow !!!
A few users have already download 15% of the whole thing !I wonder if many users won't download the whole package. If yes, there will be a lot of leechers stuck endlessly at 90% (in case they unselected 10% of the files sizes), they will appear as seeders in their client and leechers in GT, which could rank this torrent high in the Top 100 lol
In the end, it should be interesting to control how many users will be shown as leechers during hours, with their "completed" column not changing anymore : those are the users who probably unselected a part of the files and will be shown as leechers to the tracker, when in fact they're not leeching anymore.
41.95GB within a single torrent, maybe it's the record until now !
I wonder if all clients allow to unselect a part of the files before downloading : gladly uTorrent allows it.
How can anyone use a client that doesn't allow this crucial functionality ?
Well I guess it's when you face such situations and your client doesn't allow it…that you start to think of other clients
It's the same way of thinking between using QTM vs Manual Upload : if you're allowed to use QTM (i.e if you got a PC running Windows and Utorrent), how is it possible NOT to use QTM ?
With QTM, no matter the different folders where you place your movie, the 1st torrent uploaded by QTM and the 2nd torrent re-downloaded by QTM : it works like a charm even if those 3 files are in 3 different folders !Without QTM ?
Try to re-download the 2nd torrent ( manually :cry2: ) and place it in a wrong folder ( :cry2: :cry2: ) , then the problems start…and Mods daily have to explain to the complaining users where they should re-download the 2nd torrent and what they need to do now that they re-downloaded it in a wrong folder.And there will always be newbies who will fall into that same trap...which can be easily avoided by using this terrific program named QTM . The 1st day Tom will come back here and I see him write any topic, I will answer him in big bold characters to thank him for creating QTM
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I would like to know if GT server clock is keeping time correctly.It may be off from the real time by some seconds (or even minutes) but that "offset" is constant by now
That reminds me of the time one or two years ago where our server time "floated" through timezones during a day (due to a hardware failure) but that "timefloating" is luckily gone
As to your attached pictures:
The peer list is created "on the fly" from our database when you select or refresh that page - the displayed times are correct (not taking in account that there could be some cache programs between our server and your screen
l- like your browser's cache ) "only" for the time when that page is created / refreshed.So if you create/refresh the page and wait for two hours the page will still show old (by now) times. It does not make sense at all to "auto-refresh" this page (unless you consider "overloading" our server as sense
)A remark to the "checked" column: this column shows the time when the last "announce/start/stop" message came to our server. Usually this time changes around every 30 minutes when our sever asks the client about his last results (or the client contacted the server to send his last results or to start a new torrent or to stop a downloaded torrent or …)
So there is no real time frame because these times are not only server related but a client can send a STOP message and another START message (after reboot f.x.) at every time which will of course change that time stamp after a refresh of that page
8 bits = 1 Byte
100 bits = 12.5 Bytes
100 kbits = 12500 Bytes = 12.5 KB
100 mbits/s = 12.5 MB/s !And a last word (for this posting) to your calculation:
It is (roughly
) correct - but only roughly because you mixed up some (earlier used units which are still used on our site today)see: hXXp://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/code_kbyte_en
earlier:
1 b = 1 bit
1 B = 1 byte ( = 8b)
1 kb = 1000 b
1 kB = 1000 B
1 Kb = 1024 b
1 KB = 1024 B
…so a lowercase letter means either the lower unit (b <-> B) or the lower multiplicand (k <-> K)
As marketing entered the business things changed (I don't dare to say "because they did not understand"
)so the difference now (for fans of exact terms) is
1 kb (= 1 Kb) = 1000 b
1 KiBit (or KibiBit) = 1024 Bit
1 KiByte (or KibiByte) = 1024 Byte
...When the site was created first the unit extension bInary (for the i in KiB) did only exist in drafts and was not yet fully accepted over the world.
Still there is remaining a lot of confusion about bits and bytes - especially in up/download speed measurements. ISPs usually advertise their bandwidth in MB/s which is really MegaBit per second (and a wrong unit in the old usage of units (which should have been mb/s). But show me marketing folk who care about capitals or lowercase (additionally with the easy explanation of "sorry - must be a typo"). (as an example: nowadays TB hard drives calculate 1000 GB as 1 Terabyte ... that is why some OS show a new hard drive with less than announced capacity - same is valid for 1 GB advertised for 1000 KB - do the further calculation yourself 1000 * 1000 ... is less than 1024 * 1024 ... but gives greater figures in advertising 1.5 TB (for a capacity of 1,500,299,264,000 Bytes) looks better than the effective capacity of 1.36451423168182373046875 TebiBytes).
Only our site still uses the older units of KB/s (= 1024 byte per second) ... which most BitTorrent clients use too.
Bottom line: as a first measure divide your ISP speed measures by 8 to get measurements in Bytes instead of bits and take in account the binary calculation mentioned above to learn your effective speeds. Not taking in account that all ISPs (at least in Germany) don't give the upload speed any longer in their advertising - you have to ask for that value separately and if you are lucky you get a correct answer at your third or fourth call-center attempt).
To give an answer to your (for sure :)) upcoming questions "Why does GayTorrent.ru still show the older units?" already now: (I DO know, it is not correct to answer a question with a counter-question): Do you know how many times we use those old units on our complete site? (Bluntly: I don't know - and we have more work to do than changing the display of units from KB -> KiBiBytes, MB -> MebiBytes, ...)
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@mgr:
So if you create/refresh the page and wait for two hours the page will still show old (by now) times. It does not make sense at all to "auto-refresh" this page (unless you consider "overloading" our server as sense
)Hi Mgr,
Thx for your detailed answer.
Well be sure I refreshed the web page immediately before taking the 2 snapshots, or they would have reflected older times of course.
Thx for explaining the "1000 - 1024" I remember them too, but I just didn't want to detail it (as you did so well)Now concerning this big torrent (41.95GB) : a few leechers have already downloaded 97% in 18h, great !
And the uploader UpSpeed shows now 7.88MB/s , that's fast.PS: sorry I don't add any smiley in the post, also I guess there will be no more posts starting with "Hi family", it would make us all sad because it was Tim's intro.
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Please do not stop the "Hi Family" greeting s. For me a reminder is a good thing for us all. That line alone says so much about Tim's character and his feelings for the membership here t GT.ru. I intend to use it as often as I can .
For me this is his legacy at GT.ru!!!!
I agree with that statement. It is a tradition within my biological background to keep the memory of a lost loved one alive. It may sound strange, but it's just the way that we do it.
