#193 closed defect (wontfix)

pauses during streaming music at a party

Reported by: zooko Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: eventually
Component: code-encoding Version: 0.6.1
Keywords: download reliability Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

Sometimes tahoe pauses during streaming a succession of music files at a party. I think that the pauses always come right after someone has closed their laptop and started to leave the party.

The part about a download failing because one of its servers disappeared is a known issue.

But the part about pausing during a working download and then resuming about a minute later is strange. Also sometimes it pauses at the beginning of downloading a new file.

I think.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed at 2008-02-14T00:04:53Z by warner

  • Component changed from unknown to code-encoding
  • Owner nobody deleted

comment:2 Changed at 2008-09-24T13:27:28Z by zooko

See also #253, #287, and #521.

comment:3 Changed at 2009-11-22T16:00:25Z by davidsarah

  • Keywords download reliability added

comment:4 Changed at 2009-12-12T04:28:46Z by zooko

  • Resolution set to wontfix
  • Status changed from new to closed

The part of this that is understood enough to that we can make progress on it now lives in #287 (download: tolerate lost/missing peers). The part that isn't really #287 is that downloads would pause for about 60 seconds and then resume. I don't know how to explain that, but I haven't attempted to reproduce the problem in years and the code has changed a lot since then, so I'm going to presumptively close this ticket as 'wontfix'.

Brian intends to rewrite the downloader at some point to fix #287, optimize performance, etc. (I intend to do so as well, but I bet Brian gets around to following-through on his intention before I do...)

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