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bieberj
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Estimated Download size is too small

When I opened my thinkpad this morning, the first thing I saw was the antivirus asking me if it is ok to download something on behalf of WCG (which it sometimes does).

Then I noticed that 2 tasks were done, one was running and one was in the process of downloading. (I have 2 processors on this thinkpad so two tasks run at any time) I looked at the transfers tab and restarted the download of the my430-439_aamy43809_05.075_v1_3.gz file.

Watching it, this file had an estimated size of 1.02M. Watching the download, it downloaded well past 1.02M, the percentage has already reached 100% and it was still downloading. It had already reached 1.25M when I decided that it was time to abort the download. A confirmation pop-up asked me if I was sure, by this time the download has completed and the task started running so I didn't confirm. The task is still running after an hour and probably will complete without a problem.

Is the estimated download size that is off by at least 25% something that should be investigated? I don't think anyone else has noticed it - I happened to spot it.

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Re: Estimated Download size is too small

Sometimes when a download is interrupted, instead of resuming from where it left off, boinc will download starting from the beginning again but will count both the partial and full download in the number of bytes transferred.

So if you received 400KB the first try and then the entire 1.02MB the second try, boinc will report it as 1.42MB even though it is really just 1.02MB.
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