The Pieces tab displays each piece currently being downloaded by µTorrent. If a piece is selected, then holding Shift
on the keyboard while right-click
ing on the pieces list will display a context menu with the option, " Log piece info...
." When selected, debug information is added to the Logger tab
for the currently-highlighted piece. The following is a description of each column:
- # is the piece's number in the .torrent file.
- # of Blocks is the number of 16 KiB blocks that compose that single piece.
- Availability is the number of times this piece is seen completed within the group of peers you are currently connected to.
- Blocks
is the graphical progress bar for the piece. You'll notice that there
are different colors displayed for different blocks. They are as
follows:
- Dark blue means the data has been downloaded and written to disk.
- Medium blue means the data has been downloaded, but remains in the cache in memory, unwritten to disk.
- Light blue means the data has been requested from a single peer.
- Green means the data has been requested from multiple peers. Blocks only turn green during endgame mode.
- White means the data is is available in the swarm, but has not yet been downloaded.
- Completed is the number of blocks completed in the piece.
- Mode is the general evaluation of the speed at which the piece is being transferred by the peer. A piece's mode can be either fast , medium , or slow . µTorrent uses this evaluation to determine whether a piece should be taken from fast peers or slow seeds. This is meant to try to prevent situations where a slow seed sends the same piece as a fast peer. Instead of allowing that to happen, µTorrent attempts to have the slower seed send another piece, possibly something that might be rarer in the swarm.
- Priority shows the priority µTorrent has assigned the piece based on the priority of the file(s) it belongs to . If the piece belongs to multiple files, then it is assigned the highest priority of the files it belongs to. If a piece passes the criteria for being given higher priority by bt.prio_first_last_piece (assuming the option is enabled), and the piece's priority is not skipped, then piece's priority is elevated by one priority level.
- Size is the size of the piece.
