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Disk usage much larger than file

Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:43 am
by lordharper
When dling an 8GB file, Deluge allocated most of it (7.3GB) but then proceeded to "use" a furthur 6GB. I did not get the excess back until I uninstalled Deluge. I reinstalled a different version (0.5.9.3) because I needed the scheduler, but it's now doing the same thing with a similar file. Any ideas as to what's going on?

Windows Vista Enterprise, Deluge 1.1 (originally).

Re: Disk usage much larger than file

Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:34 pm
by lordharper
The excess space was returned after a system restart this time. It would seem that this issue is related to this:

http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/331

The torrent was paused on both occasions in my case. This phenomenon obviously still occurs in 1.1 - although it's not serious if you know what's going on and how to rectify it (restart).