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I'm trying to wrap my head around how torrent tracker servers work. How do private trackers monitor ratio?

I can see from the spec that there's a "completed" message, but I'm just not sure how the tracker uses this information to generate the commonly used ratio metric.

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closed as off topic by Shane Madden, Iain♦ Oct 16 '12 at 6:38

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