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by ciphex
Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:43 am
Forum: Mac Support
Topic: Transmission causes leopard slow death
Replies: 517
Views: 1652233

Re: Transmission causes leopard slow death

I will be happy to do my share to uncover the root of this problem, including testing and whatever tracing I am capable of as is necessary.
by ciphex
Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:24 am
Forum: Mac Support
Topic: Transmission causes leopard slow death
Replies: 517
Views: 1652233

Re: Transmission causes leopard slow death

I ran an Instruments (dtrace) Memory audit on Transmission since the problem is present for me. I ran this for 5 minutes. Transmission already had a few torrents in it that were verified. It began to eat RAM but stopped when the torrents were loaded, not rendering any of that back to the system it s...
by ciphex
Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:39 pm
Forum: Mac Support
Topic: Transmission causes leopard slow death
Replies: 517
Views: 1652233

Re: Transmission causes leopard slow death

tempel, In my case this happens with only a few torrents hashing, before they ever connect to peers. Also, the memory consumption does not increase when downloading if no hashing is going on. However, I have noticed odd DNS behavior around the net for the past month or more. I have had to switch to ...
by ciphex
Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:07 am
Forum: Mac Support
Topic: Transmission causes leopard slow death
Replies: 517
Views: 1652233

Re: Transmission causes leopard slow death

I have noticed a few things: 1) Transmission is the culprit of these hangs as so many others have noted. 2) It is memory related. When launched, transmission eats a massive amount of free memory. The memory is almost immediately "released" back into inactive, which SHOULD then be eligible ...