Solution to "Leopard Slow Death"

[VoRa]

Along with a whole lot of other users, I've been experiencing extremely poor performance while running Transmission on my MBP 15" (2.2 GHz Intel C2D, 4GB RAM). I believe the issue is called the "Leopard Slow Death". Now I became a member of this forum today, and it seem like the "Leopard Slow Death"-topic was locked today as well. Bad luck for me. However, I've been reading quickly through a lot of pages in that topic (28 pages total); but I couldn't find a solid solution to the issue.

A "Transmission Devoloper" claims there's a solution given to this issue (see bottom of this page), however I cannot find this solution. Pardon if I'm missing something.

I would appreciate any help in solving this enormous with Transmission. It really kills my system. Or well, most my Internet connection. 100% dead.

Thank you very much for your guidelines!

And again, sorry for bringing the subject up again - I just couldn't find the solution.

[livings124]

The interesting part of the thread begins here: http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtop ... 345#p36753

[Feek]

The issue is an OS issue - it was shown pages ago and a solution was given. What else do you want?

That was the comment in that thread.

For what it's worth, and I said that in the same thread - I followed the 'solution' 100% to the letter but the solution made no difference to my setup here which one day just suddenly stopped working. I love Transmission, I'd been using it for a very long time but for some unknown reason I started getting the slow death.

The solution didn't help me so sadly I've had to switch to uTorrent, which is a real shame because Transmission is far better (when it works).

[VoRa]

The issue is an OS issue - it was shown pages ago and a solution was given. What else do you want?

That was the comment in that thread.

For what it's worth, and I said that in the same thread - I followed the 'solution' 100% to the letter but the solution made no difference to my setup here which one day just suddenly stopped working. I love Transmission, I'd been using it for a very long time but for some unknown reason I started getting the slow death.

The solution didn't help me so sadly I've had to switch to uTorrent, which is a real shame because Transmission is far better (when it works).

Thanks for you replies, both of you.

Well if you had tested the so called "solution" and it doesn't work then there's no need for me to go bother with it.

As you say; it's really a shame Transmission has immense problems right now. I didn't have this problem say 6 months ago. However nowadays I always have it. It doesn't work, can't use it anymore. So for now I have also downloaded uTorrent (the beta for Mac) which really sucks imo, also it seem to be a copy-paste of Transmission more or less.

One more important question then; does uTorrent work good speed wise for you? Or will uTorrent kill your system as well? Thanks in advance for you answer.

Others may as well share their experiences with other clients. Thanks.

[Feek]

It is worth trying it, it has worked for some people - I just wanted to even the balance out and say that it's not a guaranteed fix so please don't discount it out of hand. It may fix the problem for you, it may not.

uTorrent has given me no problems such as I experienced with Transmission, it's not killed my system at all and I'm getting good throughput with it but it lacks many of the features that make Transmission so good (when it works).

[VoRa]

Thanks for you quick reply.

Just a notice regarding Transmission for me:

After coming home from the cinema (Transmission has been standing active while I was at the movies), Transmission has yet again killed my connection and the transfer is 0/0 (down/up). The interesting part for me is:

- Only my Ethernet connection is killed by Transmission

While I unplug the cable and go wireless with AirPort I get connection again (browsing the Internet), I'm not doing Transmission wirelessly though. So, Transmission kills your Ethernet (cable) connection, which FYI has it's own internal IP address, given by the DHCP. Say e.g. 192.168.1.33.

While the wireless connection has another, say 192.168.1.34.

Now I've been restarting my computer etc. but I can't still get my Ethernet connection back. The ONLY solution is to pull out the power cable to the router (& modem?) and wait a few minutes, then plug it in again. Then after a few minutes your Ethernet connection is back on.

As Feek says; uTorrent is working fine (connection wise), so this has to be a Transmission failure/bug and not an OS issue as claimed?

A friend of mine says Transmission 1.61 works fine for him, I'll try that and get back to you.

[Jordan]

Locking this duplicate thread. I don't see how this is any different than the other "Slow Death" thread.