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qBT total size vs downloaded mismatch
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It's probably because of the way torrent works. If some of the data from a peer doesn't pass whatever verification checks then it downloads it again. To me those look like normal variations in file size versus actually downloaded by the torrent client.
Overhead and retransmissions; got it.
THX for the reply. I was getting nowhere with my search-fu and ADD attention span.
More retransmissions than overhead. This is big concern when downloading movies and TV shows because there are attempts to poison the DLs for people (or there was when torrent was first created as a protocol).