Transmission causes leopard slow death

[Cordieri]

Cordieri: If you can't read a few posts back, then that's not my problem.

Of course and I understand this perfectly; what I just wanted to express is that's quite normal some users may switch to other softs if after many, many revisions, some serious prolems are still unfixed (since 1.51 I have these issues, whatever is the problem, it's not normal). I know this feedback seems useless, but in fact if these problems are unfixed (again tested last stable on a clean config) perhaps you dev guys need some reminder that other softs are growing well lately and you may definitively lose users if things stay unchanged.

lol, they do this for free you know. and if it is 27 pages long doesn't that mean that this is a huge problem and they are already trying the best they can? you Cordieri should show some respect to them, instead of saying that they could have fixed it already, if it is that simple why don't you fix it yourself? it is open source.

Well without being rude, if (again) after MANY revisions and lot of feedback on this board, the problem is still here, one can easily wonder if as you say "they are already trying the best they can", don't you think?
Now, for the info, I post/react upon the disrespectful answer of a dev to some feedback I could have done myself. So now that I gave you all the keys to decode the why of my post, I guess you can now completely understand it.

Sorry for bothering, end of the trolling. I'll come back around 1.9 I guess...

[CMYK78]

Sorry for bothering, end of the trolling. I'll come back around 1.9 I guess...

Come back after you upgrade to Snow Leopard

I had the "slow death" problem for some time. I recently installed the latest 10.6 build (10a380) and this issue seems to be gone. I am able to use speed limit once again I have not had one system crash while running Transmission 1.70 or 1.71

[gcamp]

@ CMYK78

And for PPC user? I'm an Intel user but my Mac Mini PPC runs Transmission...!

[livings124]

gcamp: We've established it's an OS issue, and this once again confirms it.

[Cordieri]

gcamp: We've established it's an OS issue, and this once again confirms it.

Mmh... is: "We've established it's a Transmission issue related to a certain OS, and this once again confirms it" what you really wanted to say?

(sorry, couldn't resist! . Ok, ok, just rhetoric, I really stop trolling now. I'll come back later hoping for a fix because Leo for now is just fine for me and I'm not sure to upgrade to Snow immediately... . Later, and again, sorry! )

[livings124]

Cordieri: If you troll again you will be banned. I'm sicking of saying this and then being attacked.

[jonkun227]

You state that it's an OS issue in response to a post that mentions the processor. Processor does not equal OS. Why, then, do you threaten to ban the guy who, in an obviously lighthearted manner, points that out? You seem to be a little oversensitive. Go for a walk, or whatever relaxes you, and come back.

I just came to the forums here for the first time about this issue. I've been using Transmission happily without problems (a few desired features, but no problems) for years. First I was on my PowerBook G4, then on my PowerMac G5. I just sold that and got a MacBook Pro, my first Intel-based Mac, and the problems with Transmission are driving me nuts.

On my old DSL connection at my old apartment I could run Transmission without any speed limitations and I could still browse the web, check email, etc. without a problem. With my G5 on a cable modem I couldn't run Transmission without heavy speed limits or I would lose all other web access.

I'm still on that cable modem, still with the need to throttle my connections so that others and even I can use the web for more than just bittorrent traffic, yet that's completely impossible with Transmission in its current state. I haven't tried any other clients in years, but now I'm forced to.

Is there somewhere we can sign up to be notified when this is fixed so we can come back? I will not launch the application to check automatically with this current issue.

Thank you for all of your work. I hope this doesn't sound like a complaint. I love the program, I just want to make it clear how completely unusable it is in its current state. Oh, and also that Leopard has been fully updated on both machines, and the only meaningful difference is the processor.


- Jon

[livings124]

I give up. Everyone, feel free to lecture me all you want. Clearly it is a Transmission problem since there is no way for an OS to have any problems.

[essiw]

to all trolls/whiners, I think that you should do research before shouting it is Transmissions fault, I think the makers of Transmission know what they are doing...
If you still think it is Transmissions fault, why won't you fix it yourself? it is an open source program...

[Cordieri]

I give up. Everyone, feel free to lecture me all you want. Clearly it is a Transmission problem since there is no way for an OS to have any problems.

Hey please, really sorry to bother but please don't be condescending with us and with yourself!
All OSes have their flaws but if you begin this way, today it's Leo, tomorrow can be Snow or a Linux flavor... and then?
I've been working on an opensource multi-platform project and I know very well that things are not as easy as people may think but anyway the goal is to get the soft running smoothly on all platforms! If you cannot guaranty this on a certain OS, just stop releasing for it and adios the problems! No time wasted for you, no time wasted in useless feedback from all the folks wanting to use a soft not optimized for their OS!

Frankly I don't get your attitude... Ok this is an off topic, but on a 27 pages unsolved thread I guess it's not a problem anymore...
Ban me if you feel it's better, not really a problem for me...

Again sorry for the inconvenience.

[livings124]

I don't know what else to say. The issue is an OS issue - it was shown pages ago and a solution was given. What else do you want?

[livings124]

This forum thread has endured a slow death. People are unwilling to acknowledge that this is an OS issue.

[livings124]

Unlocking to avoid duplicate posts referencing this one.

[VoRa]

Unlocking to avoid duplicate posts referencing this one.

Thanks for opening up again, as this seem to be one of the major issues. Discussion is critical. No use to lock the topic, only new ones will pop up.

Well, so this was my case this evening:

"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."

...some seem to choose to go back to 1.50-1.52 or so I read back in the pages. What's your experience nowadays? Still working fine? No "deaths"?

[VoRa]

I've found a solution that works for me. Simply using an older version, I'm using 1.52 (8222), works without any problems whatsoever. Been running Transmission via Ethernet all night, been downloading about 2 GB of data. Now this morning it's still downloading and I'm also good to browse the web immediately.

Before the change I always had 0/0 (DL/UL) after a while in Transmission, and also the Ethernet connection would be dead - thus not being able to browse the web or anyting. However the wireless connection would still work. But in order to get the Ethernet connection back I would have to either wait 1-3 hours or power off/on the router (and modem?).

However, now I have no problems at all. System is running smooth and the Activity Monitor shows all is fine.

So obviously there's some issues with the newer versions of Transmission, i.e. it's NOT an OS issue?

Edit:
A friend of mine uses version 1.72 (8709), OS X 10.5.7, internal HD 5400 rpm, 802.11n to router with ADSL 20/3, and he doesn't have any problems.

Im downloading directly to my external drive, maybe that's the problem? Still I bought my external drive yesterday and I've been having problems before that...