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When Downloading Torrents, What Does Allocating Mean?
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| Versatile |
Im downloading a disocgraphy, and it was going kind of slow, but as soon as I clicked the allocation button it sped up big time. What does this button do? i am wondering since my light when downloading torrents is always yellow, and I would like to make it green so it can go faster, but I don't know how. Does allocating do this?
Thanks in advance yall. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
open ports.
bleh, an ENTIRE discog?????
/hehe, this thread was MOVED from Music Discussion |
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| Marc Summers |
| TA does not support file sharing. |
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| Ivand |
Allocating means that bittorrent is reserving the size of the file you are downloading in the disk, making it unusable for the apps.
use utorrent.
TA does not support filesharing |
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| Silky Johnson |
| It means your butt smells. |
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| Subey |
It shouldn't affect the speed of the transfer at all.
Allocating refers to 'reserving' space for a file. So say you are downloading at 2 gig file. At the very start (before you have any of it) say your hard disk reads "10 gigs free".
With allocation your hard disk will read "8 gigs free" because it has already allocating the space before you have received anything.
Doing this has 2 benefits. First it guarantees you won't run out of room (since you know exactly how much space is going to be used in advance) and second in a minor way it may help with fragmentation (since presumably it will be reserving as large a contiguous block of space as possible) |
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| Versatile |
| What is utorrent, and how do I go about opening ports? |
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| igottaknow |
| what is "file sharing"? |
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| Ivand |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
what is "file sharing"? |
when the mothers of your victims go together to file a complain |
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| Frenchie |
TA doesn't support anything you guys.
It sure as hell doesn't support this post. |
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| kadomony |
| what will also help speeds is increasing your half-open tcp connections to around 80 |
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