Transmission

I had 1.74 on a current iMac 24" with 10.6 too and had the same death problems with larger numbers of torrents. I tried parodyr's approach and it appears to work. However, having read the whole thread now, I think, it still wasn't clear to me exactly what the fix does. It states it slows things...

It has been tracked in defect 1201 - http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/1201 . However, the developer has marked the defect 'invalid' and has repeatedly stated that there is insufficient evidence in this thread to implicate Transmission (apparently it is Mac OS X's fault). Though I appreciate dev...

Just another observation of the same thing. Started using a Mac Mini as the primary bit-torrent machine and as an HTPC. I experienced similar problems - it can lock up the entire machine and sometimes it will return to almost normal. When it's locked up I also get the beachballs and in addition, can...