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 ...

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 per file.

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 ...