Transmission

It occurred to me that this might launch useful behavior in rare cases, or in a special case not yet dreamed of...

Interesting thoughts, and you might be onto something in a strange kind of way :), but for the other 99.99% of cases this behavior is simply a CPU cycle-wasting, machine-heating ...

x190 wrote:Sounds like trac ticket material to me. You will need to register first.

T used to refuse the hay in the past. This should be easy to implement.

I had the same thought, thanks for the nudge: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3507

Although every torrent on earth comes from linuxisobay, minor workarounds to preserve functionality for this tracker and prevent catastrophic client breakage are overshadowed by a much greater concern - never ever fixing an upstream issue.

While I agree with you in principle, rigid adherence to ...

Could someone please inform us what the hay is the issue with blueberry? I thought they were basically out of the tracking business anyway. So if Transmission doesn't like blueberries (or trackers that rhyme with hay) why isn't it coded to just not load them as trackers (and give a log entry ...

A well known tracker rhyming with hay (and unfortunately censored by this <censored> forum) has been redirected at the DNS level to 127.0.0.1, i.e. localhost. Any connection to said tracker will end up connecting to your own host.

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/08/05/google-verizon-and ...

Workaround: edit your torrents to remove any reference to a tracker that rhymes with hay.
--jch

hehe, i'm pretty sure i know what you mean, and i'll give that a try, thanks for the reply...but can you explain a bit more about what's going on under the hood/in the background? i only superficially ...

Hi,

I've been using Transmission (currently v2.03) for quite a while, and I've noticed that sometimes it causes both of my CPU's (MBP 2.66Ghz core 2 duo, 4GB RAM) to peg at 100% and stay there. I usually just clear out some torrents and restart to make the problem go away, but today this didn't ...