Transmission 1.40 hangs
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Transmission 1.40 hangs
Hello,
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, and decided to upgrade transmission 1.34 to 1.40.
The thing is that now when I start a download of an torrent with a large size (> 1Gb), transmission hangs and my laptop becomes very slow.
I need to wait at least some minutes until transmission becomes responsive again. I've also tried the 1.41 beta with the same results.
Going back to 1.34 works perfectly...
Maybe the file allocation on disk method as changed from 1.34 to 1.40, but it's very annoying.
Anyone experience the same problem?
Thanks.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, and decided to upgrade transmission 1.34 to 1.40.
The thing is that now when I start a download of an torrent with a large size (> 1Gb), transmission hangs and my laptop becomes very slow.
I need to wait at least some minutes until transmission becomes responsive again. I've also tried the 1.41 beta with the same results.
Going back to 1.34 works perfectly...
Maybe the file allocation on disk method as changed from 1.34 to 1.40, but it's very annoying.
Anyone experience the same problem?
Thanks.
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
same problem.
600 MB+ save to NTFS disk
transmission 1.40 , ubuntu 8.10
600 MB+ save to NTFS disk
transmission 1.40 , ubuntu 8.10
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
The thing that comes to mind is the preallocation feature. Transmission creates the container for the file to place the peaces in the appropriate point. This also helps reduce fragmentation by creating the file at once.
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
I tried 1.41beta from ubuntu repo yesterday.While i was downloading, mount.ntfs-3g used higher cpu and transmssion gui freeze.
Now I use 1.34 nothing problem found same as 1.40 and 1.41.
Now I use 1.34 nothing problem found same as 1.40 and 1.41.
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
I think Rolcol is right here. Of course, going back to v1.34 will seem as if everything is smooth, since v1.4x has already allocated the file This would improve the performance of v1.34 too.
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
I'm using v1.34 on Ubuntu Ibex and I also get the freezes.
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
Then you're likely experiencing other issues, I suggest you upgrade to the latest version of transmission, or even try a nightly.thedruid wrote:I'm using v1.34 on Ubuntu Ibex and I also get the freezes.
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Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
Well, it seems fixed with transmission 1.50 beta 3.
Thanks to the devs.
Thanks to the devs.
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Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
The problem is back again
Just updated from Ubuntu 9.04 to transmission 1.60.
Just updated from Ubuntu 9.04 to transmission 1.60.
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
This is not a GTK only issue. On my Mac Transmission also freezes on a very regular interval while downloading to NTFS-3g. I'm using 1.72; 1.71 and 1.61 also seems to be affected. When I still used 1.34 Transmission would also freeze, but only during preallocation. Later versions also freeze while filling the pre-allocated space.
Is there anything we or the devs can do about it? I tried using my HFS+ partition as an incomplete folder, which works, until the torrent has fully been downloaded and Transmission starts moving data to my NTFS-3g partition. Tnx for the help!
Is there anything we or the devs can do about it? I tried using my HFS+ partition as an incomplete folder, which works, until the torrent has fully been downloaded and Transmission starts moving data to my NTFS-3g partition. Tnx for the help!
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
using 1.73 and the issue still persists
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
Using 1.76 (9395) and these hangs and freeze are persistent - even when I am a seeder of 7 torrents I've got 5-20 seconds freeze before GUI response. It seems like transmission waits for a single event (e.g. network) and ignore another (e.g. GUI) until first happens.
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
...Neddie Segooon?segooon wrote:By: segooon
Does this persist in 1.80 beta 5? When seeding, 1.80 attempts to prefetch the data from the disk to reduce IO wait...segooon wrote:Using .76 (9395) and these hangs and freeze are persistent - even when I am a seeder of 7 torrents I've got 5-20 seconds freeze before GUI response. It seems like transmission waits for a single event (e.g. network) and ignore another (e.g. GUI) until first happens.
Re: Transmission 1.40 hangs
Hmm.. can I install transmission in separate directory?
Single execution of ./transmission freezes; maybe it tries to find some new resources in previous installation and cannot find them.
I did configure --prefix=_local_dir_ && make && make install and run transmission from _local_dir_.
I cannot agree with phrase that prefetching is a complete solution of such a problem - GUI must not freeze even when I download 100+ torrents, even my hard disk is very slow, even if I save it on network disk with horrible latency or floppy disk (yes, it is crazy situation:) ) - torrent client should only say "I dont know current speed of download or when it is finished" or smth like that and simply queue the request. GUI is like a client communicating with server with functional part (network/storage process), it must be fault tolerant imho.
Single execution of ./transmission freezes; maybe it tries to find some new resources in previous installation and cannot find them.
I did configure --prefix=_local_dir_ && make && make install and run transmission from _local_dir_.
I cannot agree with phrase that prefetching is a complete solution of such a problem - GUI must not freeze even when I download 100+ torrents, even my hard disk is very slow, even if I save it on network disk with horrible latency or floppy disk (yes, it is crazy situation:) ) - torrent client should only say "I dont know current speed of download or when it is finished" or smth like that and simply queue the request. GUI is like a client communicating with server with functional part (network/storage process), it must be fault tolerant imho.