Hi…I have been a bitcomet user for many years. Recently I ran into a hash checking problem—
hash check always hangs at 0.3%.CPU works like mad till the fan roars. Attempting any further action freezes Bitcomet.
I tried the following
Moving the file to a different physical drive and hashing again > same probelm
downloading a torrent file instead of using magnet link, hash again > same problem
tried on 1.31 x86 and x64, 1.29 x86, all having same result
**Used uTorrent and it hashed perfectly to 99.8%, finished the download eventually
Tried hashing the file (finished by utorrent) using bitcomet, hangs at 0.3% still
Bitcomet has been my client of choice and i really hope the staff could look into it. Thanks!
We can report a bug if we can reproduce it. I suggest you provide the torrent and one of our staff can check it (time permitting). If we can confirm it, the data will be sent to development.
I started the torent, it began downloading normally. I then stopped it and did a hash check which completed then I resumed download. Seems to work fine for me.
Perhaps other staff members can try it, see if anyone else has a problem.
I have had this happen to me before. Generally, wiping the download and starting over fixes it. So does changing to another client to finish the torrent, when that is feasible.
I have now two torrents that are doing the same thing and **wiping the download and starting over DOES NOT FIX IT AT ALL! **
No matter what I do, hash checking the file causes 50%+ CPU time with no percent increase in the hash check, it just keeps pushing the CPU. The only thing you can do is stop the HASH which freezes Bitcomet and you have to Cntrl-Alt-Del and kill the process…
I must say that I encountered this yesterday too, when trying to deal with the other issue I posted in the Staff area. It completely froze BC for me too, but I fortunately could kill the process.
It doesn’t happen on a regular basis, but then again I don’t perform manual hash-checks very often.
@TUUS: Slightly off-topic, if you have the hash of a torrent, you can use it just as well as a magnet, in BitComet, to download a torrent. Just choose “Open Torrent From URL…” and paste the hash. It’s the info-hash out of the magnet link that is being used to find the .torrent file over the DHT Network anyway, so it makes sense that the team added this feature too.
What type of Internet connection do you have (ADSL, etc.)?
Cable but that has nothing to do with a hash check which doesn’t use the internet
Do you have a modem? Do you use a router? What make and model are each one of them? Have you forwarded your port?
Dir-100 Router, Port forwarded, green light for WAN on Bitcomet, Motorola Sb5101u Modem
If you have more than one router, be sure to mention the make and model of both devices, how are they connected (i.e. in which connector of both devices is the network cable plugged) and which one of the devices is connected to or is the modem.
Also, if you have more than one computer make sure to mention in this case, to which router is every one of them connected.
Only 1 router modem theres nothing wrong with my internet connection
What version of Windows, Firewall and Antivirus do you use?
WinXP Media Center, No firewall, No antivirus
If you are asking about a specific torrent or file that you have downloaded, make sure that you include the complete torrent name, as well as the complete names of the files and their respective extensions/formats (e.g.: .rar, .wma, .bin, .cue, etc.).
Belly Of The Beast (2003) 720p BluRay x264-Japhson.torrent
japhson-bellyofthebeast-720p.mkv
Footloose (1984) 720p BluRay x264-Japhson.torrent
japhson-footloose-720p.mkv
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall 2011 Part 1 720p BluRay x264-SAiMORNY.torrent
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall 2011 Part 1 720p BluRay x264-SAiMORNY.mkv
For speed-related issues, please run various speed tests at a site such as speedtest.net (make sure that no other computer is using your Internet connection and that all other programs - including BitComet - are closed, during the tests).
Include the results, along with the settings that you are presently using, in your post, so that we may review and offer suggestions to improve its performance.
Speedtest shows what my connection speed is, its not an internet problem, Hash check can be done OFFLINE has no effect on connection
All three of your examples appear to be dead. Certainly they’re all several months old, and the “Phantom” example seems old enough to have been scrolled off the rolls of trackers that were carrying it.
As you were told in the initial reply to your topic,
We can report a bug if we can reproduce it. I suggest you provide the torrent and one of our staff can check it (time permitting). If we can confirm it, the data will be sent to development.
You’ve yet to provide a torrent that we can obtain to test.
To whatever extent the problem may be related to your OS, none of us run XP Media Center, so we can’t rule an OS version-specific issue out.
At this point you have an anecdote, nothing more. We are trying to turn it into a reproducible defect that can be reported and hopefully fixed.