Torrent health
From VuzeWiki
Each torrent gets assigned a health status showing its status using colors. The health reflects the connection status of that torrent. Typically, all your torrent while have the same status after a while, but that may depend on the swarm size etc. The important part is that the "best" status you reach tells you most about the correctness of your network settings. The goal is reach green health 
.
The "smiley" icon can be seen e.g. in My torrents, in torrent details etc.
My Library from Vuze interface:
Note: If you do not have the smiley visible by default, you can add the Health column to the table by using Column setup.
The explanations for different colors shown for the smileys:
|
Health |
What Azureus says |
Side effects |
How to fix |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Grey |
The torrent is not running |
No upload/download for that torrent |
See: TorrentsQueued |
Don't try to run more torrents than your bandwidth can cater for, See: IncreaseSpeed and Ignore_Rules |
|
Red |
You are not connected to any other peers or seeds |
No upload/download for that torrent |
See: Red Health |
None |
|
Blue |
While downloading, this means the tracker is down/ While uploading it means you are not connected to any peers |
Slow downloads/ No upload |
There is little you can do if the tracker is down, DO NOT CLICK Update Tracker, it will not help, and may cause more problems for the tracker itself. If you have DHT enabled, and the UDP port opened (See: PortForwarding) then you will still connect to other Azureus clients. |
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Yellow |
This means you are connecting to some peers/seeds, however if torrents are always yellow (as opposed to green) you may have a NAT problem which is stopping you get 'Remote' connections. |
Slow downloads |
See: PortForwarding |
Your ISP may also be blocking: a) All data on certain ports (you need to pick a random port and possibly change it every now and then. See Port is blacklisted for more information) b) All BitTorrent data (you need a new ISP) |
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Green |
This means you have both local and remote connections, the tracker is up and life is good. |
None |
Fix? |
Some torrents will never attain green status, simply because there are no remote connections to connect to. |
