[transmission] Transmission 1.76 + DHT download and discussion (OLD THREAD)

[Mozart]

Well, my problem still exists. Yesterday evening I performed te steps I described before but no success.

So I went back to 1.74.1 and still no luck I still have nearly 100% cpu usage by Transmission... Currently I have 5 active downloads and 1 paused.
To bad there is no logging, at least, not that I now off...

I will let my downloads finish and completely remove the Transmission client, see if it helps.

I did change the following items:

• Enable authentication
• Increased the peer-limit-global to 512
• Increased the peer-limit-per-torrent to 50
  

I also see the speed changes as described by Lautreamont.

[Ger Teunis]

(09-03-2009 09:00 AM)Mozart Wrote:  Well, my problem still exists. Yesterday evening I performed te steps I described before but no success.

So I went back to 1.74.1 and still no luck I still have nearly 100% cpu usage by Transmission... Currently I have 5 active downloads and 1 paused.
To bad there is no logging, at least, not that I now off...

I will let my downloads finish and completely remove the Transmission client, see if it helps.

I did change the following items:

• Enable authentication
• Increased the peer-limit-global to 512
• Increased the peer-limit-per-torrent to 50
  

I also see the speed changes as described by Lautreamont.

You might want to try lowering the number of peers as well.
If the previous version works better: revert to the previous version and report it here: http://trac.transmissionbt.com/newticket

Sounds like a new issue to me.

[Mozart]

(09-03-2009 09:06 AM)Ger Teunis Wrote:  You might want to try lowering the number of peers as well.
If the previous version works better: revert to the previous version and report it here: http://trac.transmissionbt.com/newticket

Sounds like a new issue to me.

Pausing all torrents makes the cpu usage drop to 5% or so. So I tested a bit more with this (working at home is great ):

• Lowered to 240 -> still 100%
• Lowered to 120 -> still 100%
• Lowered to 60 -> still 100%
  

During this test I paused and unpaused only 1 torrent. So the number of torrents is not the problem and it seems that the number of port is no problem as well.

[Ger Teunis]

(09-03-2009 09:18 AM)Mozart Wrote:  Pausing all torrents makes the cpu usage drop to 5% or so. So I tested a bit more with this (working at home is great ):

• Lowered to 240 -> still 100%
• Lowered to 120 -> still 100%
• Lowered to 60 -> still 100%
  

During this test I paused and unpaused only 1 torrent. So the number of torrents is not the problem and it seems that the number of port is no problem as well.

You're testing with only one torrent? What sizes are be talking about?
Just trying to get a grip on it

[Mozart]

(09-03-2009 09:24 AM)Ger Teunis Wrote:  You're testing with only one torrent? What sizes are be talking about?
Just trying to get a grip on it

Good question, there all about 7 GB...

Seems that lowering the peers from 512 to 240 does make a difference. With only one torrent the usage went down to 47%, this happenend after a couple of minutes. The system was not checking the torrents, it was just downloading. Starting a second torrent of about 7 GB doubles the cpu usage. I won't try to start another torrent for now...

[treqie]

Ger,
I've noticed that file permissions have changed. I can't do anything with the files when logged in through samba. Is there a simple fix for it?

[Ger Teunis]

(09-03-2009 01:56 PM)treqie Wrote:  Ger,
I've noticed that file permissions have changed. I can't do anything with the files when logged in through samba. Is there a simple fix for it?

Nope, they didn't. At least not for transmission.
Did you change the settings.json file? That one is important because it contains settings for default file permissions.

If you want to manage the files use ftp or install telnet and use chmod to change permissions.

Like:

Code:

chown -R nmt:nmt /share/Download

causes that the user nmt (which samba is using) to take ownership.
Use wiki above for more detailed instructions.

[treqie]

(09-03-2009 02:08 PM)Ger Teunis Wrote:  Nope, they didn't. At least not for transmission.
Did you change the settings.json file? That one is important because it contains settings for default file permissions.

If you want to manage the files use ftp or install telnet and use chmod to change permissions.

Like:

Code:

chown -R nmt:nmt /share/Download

causes that the user nmt (which samba is using) to take ownership.
Use wiki above for more detailed instructions.

Ok, I'll try that. Btw, one other thing I've noticed.. when I reboot pch, the default download directory changes back to /share/Download.

[Ger Teunis]

(09-03-2009 02:35 PM)treqie Wrote:  Ok, I'll try that. Btw, one other thing I've noticed.. when I reboot pch, the default download directory changes back to /share/Download.

I think you are editing the file while transmission is still running.
That will note take effect: always first close transmission, wait a couple of minutes and then change the file with an unix file aware editor (!!) then start transmission again.

[treqie]

(09-03-2009 02:39 PM)Ger Teunis Wrote:  I think you are editing the file while transmission is still running.
That will note take effect: always first close transmission, wait a couple of minutes and then change the file with an unix file aware editor (!!) then start transmission again.

Aha, 'cause I changed it through the webgui preferences.

[Ger Teunis]

(09-03-2009 02:41 PM)treqie Wrote:  Aha, 'cause I changed it through the webgui preferences.

Ohh, that should have worked!
Hmm, could you try the following:
1. Change the download folder via settings
2. Pause all torrents
3. Wait a couple of minutes to let the nmt settle a bit
4. Restart the NMT using Power + Eject or NMT Restart via CSI.

Does it take now?

[acsterf]

(07-19-2009 01:28 AM)acsterf Wrote:  I have a question: why when I add two .torrent files from different trackers, both with the same name, with same files (same movie), Transmission (1.72 and 1.73) won't load both trackers and download a single version of the movie, just like utorrent does? I'm trying to do it ant two separated files are being created.

Any idea if I'm doing something wrong or if Transmission doesn't support multiple trackers in a file?

Thanks!

Hi guys, I'm still have problems with multiple trackers and since the post above didn't get any answer at all I'm asking it again.

I'm trying to download the same torrent from two different trackers, so I loaded .torrente file from each and instead of one single entrance in the list there are two, one for each tracker, although there is only one folder for the movie in \share\Download. The big problem is that they are having different performances, like the same part is being downloaded twice.

I searched around and seems that since v1.30 it has support for this feature and mine is v1.74 with DHT and Peer Exchange enabled. Does anyone manage to get support for this?


Thanks in advance!

[Ger Teunis]

(09-05-2009 07:15 PM)acsterf Wrote:  I'm trying to download the same torrent from two different trackers, so I loaded .torrente file from each and instead of one single entrance in the list there are two, one for each tracker, although there is only one folder for the movie in \share\Download. The big problem is that they are having different performances, like the same part is being downloaded twice.

I searched around and seems that since v1.30 it has support for this feature and mine is v1.74 with DHT and Peer Exchange enabled. Does anyone manage to get support for this?

I have no experience with it but you might have better luck by asking this feature question on http://www.transmissionbt.com, and the forums over there.

[duramadre]

After fixing everything and start downloading 25 files, this morning gave me errors about a dozen files, too many connection.

Also I can not view web trasmission from HDX while web on PC is ok.

WHY?

[gtdaqua]

I want to report something else here: Maybe I should report on bugs section, but this 1.74 is not very good. It stopped some of the torrents on my debian server saying SL Err 3 and 'torrent not authorized' errors. I never had this problem before- resuming them simply worked. I guess its not updating the tracker to see if the error is going away. If the tracker reports an error, then it simply stops the torrent.

Reverted to 1.73 and even if there are errors, this 1.73 keeps checking the tracker every few minutes or so, thereby the download/upload is not interrupted.