Daniel Lee gave an intelligent explanation about why the amount of piece data being transferred isn't the same as the overall network footprint, and you dismissed this as "hand waving."
So I've spent the last 45 minutes doing snapshots of different BitTorrent clients to demonstrate that this behavior in all BitTorrent clients, not a simple Transmission bug. HOW TO READ THESE SCREENSHOTS Each screenshot shows a different BitTorrent client downloading the same Ubuntu ISO torrent with speed capped at 15 KB/s both ways, next to a gnome-system-monitor showing overall network use. As a visual aid I've added a horizontal green line showing the "ideal" of where a constant 15 KB/s would lie on each g-s-m network graph. > How are other clients able to control this global transfer[including > over-head] too? Vuze does this very well, if we set a global limit then it *is* honored. No. As the screenshots show, Vuze has the same behavior. In fact, if you look at the magnitude and frequency of its deviations from the 15 KB/s goal, you'll see that it actually does much worse than Transmission. -- Transmission bit-torrent doesn't honor speed limitation preferences https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/460733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
