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- Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:43 am
- Forum: Mac Support
- Topic: Transmission causes leopard slow death
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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.
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:24 am
- Forum: Mac Support
- Topic: Transmission causes leopard slow death
- Replies: 517
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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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...