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Old November 8th, 2005
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Question Q: After a few hours, all upload slots are same file.

Does anyone else experience this?

If I leave LimeWire running for hours (like all-day), eventually, all of my upload slots will be uploading the exact same file. I have my settings to prevent any one user from downloading more than one file at a time, and every upload is sourced to a different Host/IP address.

I can't fathom that a dozen different people suddenly all decide to download the same obscure file all at the same time. Yet, eventually, this is always the result.

Typically, I'll see about 7-8 slots (out of ten) all uploading the same file, till eventually all ten upload slots, and all ten Queued slots, are taken up by the exact same file.)

This has been a problem since I first started using LW at 4.8.1.

Anyone else experience this? Is this a bug or a frequent freak coincidence?
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I've not experienced this, but if I think paranoid, I feel that someone with a lot of computers is trying to stop you uploadng to anyone else.

Do you share many files?

Have you tried removing this file from your share, or possibly just renaming it slightly. .... Does this happen only with one particular file.?
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Default Re: Q: After a few hours, all upload slots are same file.

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Anyone else experience this? Is this a bug or a frequent freak coincidence?
I have!!! There seems to be daily or weekly or monthly popular titles. Even though there might be 'sands of similar files available on the G network & the one in question I'd have personally thought of as rarish or obscure. And as suggested this seems to change from day or week or month to the next (on-demand file.) My most populars have varied over mths & weeks. And all being in major queues for the same (popular file of the moment) file. Perhaps it's related to how gnutella handles popularity for files ... such as those that are not nexccessarily the "most" popular. Gnutella "might" pool its requests somehow. Just guessing out aloud!
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Yea I get that too, all the time. For me it's always a video file, but if I unshare my video files and just share audio I get more of a variety of diff.files being uploaded.
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I did notice recently that one IP was in my upload queue three times for the same file. I'm not sure why the program would allow this...
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I've noticed this too. It would be nice if you could assign upload slots to different types of files so they aren't all consumed with one file type. typically it's very large files. People who want smaller files just can't get them from me.
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(files) I'd have personally thought of as rarish or obscure. And as suggested this seems to change from day or week or month to the next (on-demand file.) My most populars have varied over mths & weeks. And all being in major queues for the same (popular file of the moment) file. Perhaps it's related to how gnutella handles popularity for files
I've thought something along these lines too.

What happens is, when I first connect, I'll almost immediately (within the first fifteen minutes) get about three or four hits on the exact same obscure file... whatever the file du jour may be that day (varies between launches. I currently share over 7800 files). After a while, I'll see more and more upload-slots taken up with the same obscure file... every IP address different.

Since there are different programs out there compatible with LW ("Bearshare", etc), I've suspected that these other programs may use some technique of using multiple IP addresses in order to get around the "one person, one file" restriction I've set. I sincerely doubt 20 different people are all suddenly after the same copy of "funny-cats". (Though I haven't been able to pinpoint any particular netshare software as being guilty of this.)

It's always a video file too, but I suspect this is only because videos are the largest files, and the longer it takes to upload, the more likely you are to see multiple connections to it (MP3's just aren't big enough to prompt this "bug".) A really large document would probably reveal the same "bug" if someone were willing to spend 8 hours downloading a book.

Allowing multiple connections per user doesn't resolve the problem. It has the opposite effect, making it worse.

It can become quite annoying, as I see users wanting to download a simple 50K jpg waiting in line behind a half dozen slots taken up downloading a 700M video at 3K/sec. with 23 hours to go.
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Here I go being paranoid again...any thoughts on the RIAA or somebody else intentially trying to 'kill' gnutella by using up everyone's upload slots?
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It still happens even when useing Peer Guardian
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It's nice to see I'm not alone here. It's not just my setup, and I'm not crazy.

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