Torrent programs (new posts)

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:22:48 +0000

Hi angiolin,
as i understand, you encounter some isssues with the last transmission version 1.76-1 of Transmission.
if you have a WhiteLight Mybook,and you use featurepacks for transmission configuration, you can revert to a previous version :

1) uninstall the Transmission Feature Pack by clicking the uninstall button

2) go to the system Configuration menu / FeaturePacks

then select manual install of feature pack,
copy paste the following url

http://highlevelbits.free.fr/download-MBWEW/TROLD61a/Transmission.tar
then click the GET button.

3) this should install the old transmission v1.61 + hotfixes which was known to be stable.

Regards,

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:37:16 +0000

Here is what I run with and never seem to have an issue:

message-level 0
open-file-limit 32
peer-limit-global 240
peer-limit-per-torrent 80
speed-limit-up 15

and have normally 3 running at a time.

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:31:45 +0000

it seems that with a global peer limit of 100 and only two active torrent transmission is more responsive with no more performance downgraded.
please check by yourself
Bye

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:32:29 +0000

Did a cleanup of my active torrents on the weekend, one by one to see if any of them in particular was causing a problem. Private tracker, single file torrents with 3-500 ish peers/seeds didn't affect anything. A public tracker, single file torrent with thousands of peers/seeds didn't make any difference.

When I deleted a torrent, private tracker with a bunch of files, with many set to skip, everything settled down and ran properly. Now I thought that was the cause, but then I realised the one remaining torrent is the same scenario - same private tracker, many component files, most set to skip, the rest is seeding.

So I don't know what the issue is - limiting the number of connections doesn't seem to affect the sluggish performance much (it does affect memory usage though).

If I get some time I'll try getting the same torrent that I thought was causing the issue and see if it happens again… Not going to hold my breathe though.

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:47:05 +0000

I'm going to reduce the number of simultaneous peer. I'll be back with the results.

RSS feed into Transmission vs TVTorrents.com: Re: RSS feed into Transmission vs TVTorrents.com

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:38:20 +0000

I'm having problems too installing the RSS downloader. I must say kyyhkynen's tutorials are amazingly easy to follow and even a complete newbie like me can apply them, but:
If I try to compile the XMLStarlet Myself, in the .configure…. part, I get an "access denied error". I solved it with

 chmod a=x configure

(found it on google, I'm really newbie in linux).

Then, in the make check part, I get several "../src/xml: can't load library 'libxslt.so.1'" and FAILED.
when I run #xml, I get:
xml: can't load library 'libxslt.so.1'

So I gave a chance to perl: the wget commands are wrong? If I delete the "perl" word, they do download and work until the "perl Makefile.pl…" part. It doesn't understand the "perl" command.

The script kinda does something. It checks for the links I put in the tvrss folder, but it doesn't find nothing… I tried even the example in the tutorial, without results.

They sound to me like newbie questions, I'm sure I'm forgetting something, so if someone can please help me, I'll appreciate.
Damian

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:58:50 +0000

I gotta add a +1 here also. I definitely noticed it in 1.75 (as I remember thinking maybe an upgrade would fix some unresponsiveness I was having), and just the last few days, the sluggish performance has been showing up big time in 1.76. With a bunch of torrents in there (10 or so), it is pretty much unusable at the moment.

Hopefully there is a fix soon.

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:47:50 +0000

Yes, there you go:
http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/PreviousReleases

I have not made up my mind on doing this, but I would simply remove the old one with optware:
/opt/bin/ipkg remove transmission

Then … humm. Build from source, follow the description? Or does optware have options for using older versions? Any smart people?

CLI for transmission: Re: CLI for transmission

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:42:41 +0000

Uhm, this is supposed to work on the MBWE itself, right? Authentication does not work for me. At first, it just reacted:

 [root@MarkiWD64 bin]# transmission HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

Then I inserted the username and the password (the ones in JSON, and yes, I checked them 3 times, notably by running transmission-remote straight afterwards) - and still the same thing. Python is completely new to me, so… question. Do I need to recompile the script, or is there some other problem? I like the idea of having such a great tool inside a simple SSH console - but it does not work. I would be really greatful if you could give me a hand in getting it to run.

Cheers,
J

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:27:53 +0000

Hey guys,

I found a similar thing. It clogs down the whole network, until I kill the process (thank god, SSH works more or less OK) and restart it. Weird. Has anyone notified the transmission team about this?

Help me build & setup Transmission: Re: Help me build & setup Transmission

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:08:12 +0000

I install Transmission to my NAS Buffalo , but it got the problem when I browser WebUI . Give me solution please

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:03:30 +0000

does anyone know where can we found a previous version of transmission ? and how can we install the old version ?

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:29:04 +0000

I'm not 100% sure about this, but the performance seems to be much more sluggish when a particular active torrent has thousands of seeds and leechers. When there are only hundreds (or less) of seeds and leechers, it seems to run more stable.

Can anyone else confirm this?

Would having more seeds/leechers cause instability. Could this result in transmission trying to make too many "connections"? Is there a way to limit the "connections"?

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:01:44 +0000

Same problem here too.
Actually on 1.75, I had the same issue.

I dont want to revert to older versions that dont support Transmission GUI. :(

trans_watchdog: Re: trans_watchdog

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:21:31 +0000

Hey Frater, thanks for the excellent script. It's working great for me. The only issue I have is that it is not automatically deleting the *.torrent.transmission files in the watchdog folder after max seedtime or max ratio is reached. It removes the torrents from transmission's list, but those files still remain. Is there any way to make them delete those as well?

Transmission - "No such file or directory" problem: Re: Transmission - "No such file or directory" problem

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:36:45 +0000

it is /shares/Public

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Re: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:51:03 +0000

Same experience for me. After some time transmission gets unresponsive. Hope in a fix with the next release.

Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance: Transmission 1.76 sluggish performance

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:40:41 +0000

I upgraded from Transmission 1.72 to 1.76 on my bluelight via Optware a couple weeks ago. It works perfectly right after starting up, but after a day or so it gets really sluggish and unresponsive. At that point, if I login and do a "transmission-remote -l", it sometimes takes a couple minutes to return the status, and it takes a similarly long time for web interface to load. At that point I'm pretty sure it has stopped downloading, and the program has crashed/hung up. I have it set up so that only one torrent is active at a time (the rest are stopped), so its not like I'm over-taxing the system.

Has anyone seen similar issues. I didn't have this problem with earlier versions. I now set up the box to stop and restart transmission daily. I might have to increase the frequency of stops and restarts.

[HOW TO] Set up WD MBWE (White light) properly + Transmission(1.72) + automate and manage torrents: Re: [HOW TO] Set up WD MBWE (White light) properly + Transmission(1.72) + automate and manage torrents

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:56:20 +0000

never mind fixed my own problem

my downloads folder is actually shares/Public/Torrent/work and NOT shares/internal/Public/Torrent/work

Thanks for the excellent guide

[HOW TO] Set up WD MBWE (White light) properly + Transmission(1.72) + automate and manage torrents: Re: [HOW TO] Set up WD MBWE (White light) properly + Transmission(1.72) + automate and manage torrents

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:28:04 +0000

I am getting an error when attempting to download
"No such directory or file"

Several other peopel are complaining about this as well. Any way to fix it?