Transmission

It is often desirable to download files of a torrent in a particular order. Now, instead of manually changing the priorities of the files periodically to get them in the order I want, thought that could be managed automatically by Transmission: instead of managing priorities manually, I could select...

I am currently running Transmission on a machine with very slow disk interface (USB 1.0). The remote interfaces gets very slow and unresponsive when there is a high number of concurrent downloads (consequently, a high number of IO), so, I suspect the disk write calls are blocking Transmission thread...

Wouldn't this be upload priority? aMule have distinct download and upload priorities, notable for its "PowerShare" mode, for content releasers. I don't know if priority in Transmission affects only download, or if it affects both download and upload... but indeed, there is only on priority...

So, how hard would be to put a switch on ./configure to replace all malloc'ed up/download buffers with mmap'ed pointers? This is the idea: instead of malloc'ing a buffer, downloading into it, hash cheching, then writing to a file, I propose, for systems that support the system call mmap, to: mmap th...