Transmission causes 100 i/o, locks up self and computer

[SveinT]

When using Transmission 1.42 and start a new torrent the program uses 100% I/O. That's understandable seeing as it's allocating files. The problem, however, is that it completely lacks up then gets focus again and keeps going like this for a very long time. That is even after it has started downloading the file. The download speed boost up to 100-200kB/s, then the program locks up, and then goes to 0. Then repeat. I have never had this problem with other programs, just tried uTorrent using Wine and I have previously used kTorrent without this problem.

In extreme cases my computer locks up in the sense that everything's so swamped that I can barely get to console and kill Transmission after some minutes of waiting.

Any suggestions? I previously used 1.3x (can't remember, the one in Ubuntu repo) and it gave same problem.

[fahlmanc]

Into what type of filesystem were you saving the files? This person had similar troubles, and was using ntfs.