change chunk priority

[das329717]

Hi all,

I am studying XMLRPC specs for rtorrent, and I don't see, if is possible to change priority for chunks. So my question is if it is possible, so which method I can use.

Thanks.

 

[dsouvik215]

See
f.prioritize_first.enable
f.prioritize_first.disable
f.prioritize_last.enable
f.prioritize_last.disable
etc.

 

[jith45]

thanks a lot, didn't know about that, I see we got there:

Index 329 String: 'f.prioritize_first'
Index 330 String: 'f.prioritize_first.disable'
Index 331 String: 'f.prioritize_first.enable'
Index 332 String: 'f.prioritize_last'
Index 333 String: 'f.prioritize_last.disable'
Index 334 String: 'f.prioritize_last.enable'
Index 335 String: 'f.priority'
Index 336 String: 'f.priority.set'
Index 337 String: 'f.range_first'
Index 338 String: 'f.range_second'
Index 340 String: 'f.set_priority'
Index 351 String: 'file.prioritize_toc'
Index 352 String: 'file.prioritize_toc.first'
Index 353 String: 'file.prioritize_toc.first.set'
Index 354 String: 'file.prioritize_toc.last'
Index 355 String: 'file.prioritize_toc.last.set'
Index 356 String: 'file.prioritize_toc.set'

I don't know how to set the priority (off to high) for chunks. What I want to do is just download first and last 64kb of file (chunk what I need) and ignore everything else. Is that possible without patching libtorrent ?

Thank you!

 

[jith45]

What I want to do is just download first and last 64kb of file (chunk what I need) and ignore everything else

You can't do that. You may only say to rTorrent "I want load leading chunk first". Or "I want load trailing chunk first".

 

[somus1735]

Hi, thanks for answer, I was afraid of this.

Now maybe a little off topic - exists some torrent client, which I can install on server, which supports downloading JUST first and last chunk of the file and ignoring everything else ?

 

[dsouvik215]

exists some torrent client, which I can install on server, which supports downloading JUST first and last chunk of the file and ignoring everything else ?

Don't know. But i think - no. Reason is simple - if you use bittorrent, then you must seed. If you load just first and last chunk then you can't seed by normal way.

 

[somus1735]

I bet you could patch rtorrent itself to do stuff like this. I've read a few blog posts about patching rtorrent to do strange stuff, though it's mostly beyond me, i would image it's possible for someone who understands c++

 

[das329717]

I understand, thanks for answer, which makes sense. So it seems I have to hack the source code, it doesn't seems so hard.

Have a nice day!