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Torrent
Terminology - Page 2
Besides the well known torrent related terms such as peers, seeds, swarms and trackers there are some other terms that you may come across while using or researching torrents. More of these are explained below.
Reseed
A reseed is required when a complete copy of the requested file is not available because no seeds are currently in the swarm and the full file cannot be pieced together by all the peers in the swarm. A reseed request is then sent by the swarm and they must wait for a new seeder to enter the swarm before the file can be completed.
Choked
A connection is considered to be "choked" when the transmitter is no longer sending any data over the link. The transmitter could of reached the peak data throughput and so the connection becomes choked. Other reasons included a peer downloading from a seed. Since the seed has no need to download data itself the peers connection is marked as choked.
Optimistic Un-choking
In order to un-choke some of the connections available, the client can shake up the connections by choking current connections and re-trying connections that were previously choked. This can make sure that all connections are used and not over-used.
Interested
If a downloader has a connection where the other end has pieces of the file it requires it marks the connection as interested. If the connection proves to have no required pieces of the file the connection is marked as not interested.
Snubbed
A snubbed client is a client which hasn't received any data after a certain amount of time, the default setting is 60 seconds. Snubbed is a term to label the connection when the peer has chosen not to send data and has "snubbed" the incoming connection.