I could use some help with help. When I click on KTorrent Handbook the kde help center opens with the message There is no documentation available for /ktorrent/index.html.

Well, that's no good. I'm new to torrent and KTorent, so I could use all the help I can get to understand all the torrent nomenclature and the features of KT. I figured that the help files should have been installed when I installed KT using the the rpm file, but got nothing. So I checked at ktorrent.org for any help files that could be downloaded or read online, but no joy.

Now, I've got a hundred questions, and I realize that all you fine folks are waiting eagerly for me to start asking all the usual (and several unusual) questions so you can spend all day long just answering them one at a time, but for some reason I'd rather RTFM first. If only I could find TFM to R.

So, where are they at, and why aren't they already installed? How can I learn everything?

Well, i was started making the documentation until i got ill. And now the docs aren't finished yet, so it is me to blame there is nothing finished.

But please just ask.

On the log viewer, peers tab:

What is the meaning of the terms choked and snubbed?

What is the meaning of the col. labeled `DHT', and what does the green-snot-looking-things and red-splatter-looking-things in that col. mean or represent?

Same question for the green-snot-looking-things in the col. labeled `upload slot'.

Please explain cols. named `score' and `requests'.

What does the lock symbol in the IP address col mean?

rwbehne wrote:On the log viewer, peers tab:

What is the meaning of the terms choked and snubbed?

choked means that the other side refuses to upload (do not let you request pieces)
snubbed can mean different things i think, and afaik ktorrent sends it when it does not received any pieces for x minutes. When snubbed, the other side does not let you request any pieces either.

What is the meaning of the col. labeled `DHT', and what does the green-snot-looking-things and red-splatter-looking-things in that col. mean or represent?

Green labeled DHT means that the other side supports DHT. (not that the peer is collected by a DHT source)

Same question for the green-snot-looking-things in the col. labeled `upload slot'.

Upload slot means that KTorrent has unchoked the other peer and that it can request pieces from you.

Please explain cols. named `score' and `requests'.

What does the lock symbol in the IP address col mean?

Score is just a method for KTorrent to judge which peer deserves an upload slot. You should not ban/kick peers on this score.

The locked symbol indicates that the connection is build up with protocol encryption.

stoeptegel wrote:

rwbehne wrote:Score is just a method for KTorrent to judge which peer deserves an upload slot. You should not ban/kick peers on this score.

Then how should one determine who should be kicked, and who should be banned?

And how do I determine how many upload slots should be made available? Why so? Does this concern overall download performance/ratios? What does? (I'm getting only 1 KB down per 2-6 KB up.)

rwbehne wrote:Then how should one determine who should be kicked, and who should be banned?

Only if you know for sure that someone is not uploading back in swarm. You can spot that in the uploaded collumn after a while. Note that although you can kick/ban on these conditions, it is not always wise to do so as BitTorrent does not work this way. (it's always possible the peer gives you back later)
Some people use it for banning special versions op clients though.

And how do I determine how many upload slots should be made available? Why so? Does this concern overall download performance/ratios? What does? (I'm getting only 1 KB down per 2-6 KB up.)

There is no real rule for this.
I personally take at least 3 KB/s per peer of my upload capacity, and max that at 12KB/s per peer. Most of the time i use 10 upload slots at 100-115KB/s upload speed max.

In the columns under the leechers and seeders headings there are two numbers:
like: 28(109) etc , which one of these is actual figure indicative of number of peers?
the first one or the one in the parentheses? why two numbers?

Basicly it is "connected peers(total in swarm)"