Hi David,
> I think it has to do with counting HTTP headers.
That's consistent -- I noticed this problem with small files. The headers
wouldn't add enough bytes for me to have noticed it with large files.
> I looked at this a while ago but didn't immediately see the problem. I'll
> take another look.
Thanks! It's not an important issue, but since it touches the "volunteer
interface" it would be good to get it right.
Cheers,
Bruce
> On 16-Dec-2011 7:37 AM, Carl Christensen wrote:
>> hmm, I wonder if (since it's a bad connection) it's doing retries but showing
>> a cumulative byte count (i.e 4 downloads failed after 200K apiece, but the
>> actual file is 326k)?
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________ From: Bruce Allen<[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 5:57 AM
>> Subject: [boinc_dev] BOINC manager bug in Size column of Transfer tab?
>>
>> Dear BOINC Dev,
>>
>> I'm at a meeting in India with a VERY slow internet connection, and noticed
>> something odd. My BOINC manager is v6.10.58, Mac OS X. On the "Transfers"
>> tab, in the "SIze" column, the entries are of the form A/B. Many of the
>> files are showing combinations such as 809/326. I find this strange, since I
>> thought that A was the bytes downloaded so far and B was the total file
>> size. Hence A should not be greater than B.
>>
>> Is this a bug? Or am I misinterpreting these fields? Does A represent
>> something else than the current number of bytes downloaded for the file?
>>
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