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I'm sorry to be talking to myself so much. Could anybody just point me in the right direction to read up on what is going on here, because as my last two posts tried to convey, I'm not only looking for a solution but also want to understand the principle behind my failures. My lectures of documentat...

sure hope to be not too much of a pain, but does anyone of you know? why does transmission stop transferring (up and down) while emptying the cache to the SD-card? Why does it stop torrents that reside on another disk (the SSD)? Why doesn't it do that when only writing to the SSD? (processor usage i...

Another update: since I have RAM to spare I tried with a cache of 2 gb. the result is that about 500mb, sometimes more, get downloaded before being written to disk (I can see RAM consumption rising and falling in Activity Monitor), which again stalls all in- and outgoing transfers until it is finish...

ok, thank you, that's a relief! still I have no solution for the speed drops. notice that with a bigger cache transmission's behaviour is similar to that of utorrent described in my first post, just that it stops transferring completely while writing out the cache, utorrent only slows down. I don't ...

processor usage doesn't bother me much, the battery in the MBA is amazing. but 1000 writes? that's like nothing! after you mentioned it I remembered reading that elsewhere too, but I find it hard to believe that they're allowed to sell stuff like this. well, maybe it will die on me before the warra...

thanks for your answer! I get what you're saying. I've opted for the sd-card as I use my laptop very mobile, meaning it never stays in the same place for long so external hard drives, while used for archiving, don't fit the bill as a permanent storage expansion. really should've got the bigger SSD, ...

so, I did compile with cache size set to 16, 32 and 64 mb, none of it makes a difference. also,while I can keep speeds low by accessing the sd-card, I don't see any writing to it while the download halts. also, upload halts too when this happens, shouldn't that at least come from cache? even from OS...

Hi! Since the SSD on my Macbook Air only has a limited amount of space I bought an SD card for data and was wanting to use it as target for torrents as well. However when using it my download (and upload) speeds fluctuate wildly, going up to several MB/s (in the range of what I get when downloading ...