I think it has to do with counting HTTP headers.
I looked at this a while ago but didn't immediately see the problem.
I'll take another look.
-- David

On 16-Dec-2011 7:37 AM, Carl Christensen wrote:
> hmm, I wonder if (since it's a bad connection) it's doing retries but showing
> a cumulative byte count (i.e 4 downloads failed after 200K apiece, but the
> actual file is 326k)?
>
>
>
> ________________________________ From: Bruce Allen<[email protected]>
> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 5:57 AM
> Subject: [boinc_dev] BOINC manager bug in Size column of Transfer tab?
>
> Dear BOINC Dev,
>
> I'm at a meeting in India with a VERY slow internet connection, and noticed
> something odd.  My BOINC manager is v6.10.58, Mac OS X.  On the "Transfers"
> tab, in the "SIze" column, the entries are of the form A/B.  Many of the
> files are showing combinations such as 809/326.  I find this strange, since I
> thought that A was the bytes  downloaded so far and B was the total file
> size.  Hence A should not be greater than B.
>
> Is this a bug?  Or am I misinterpreting these fields? Does A represent
> something else than the current number of bytes downloaded for the file?
>
> Cheers, Bruce _______________________________________________ boinc_dev
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