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

[danwatts]

(02-20-2009 06:02 AM)grb Wrote:  hey all.

I am running Transmission 1.50 on my PCH A110, and for the most part it works pretty well, however I've noticed that if I am downloading from lots of very fast peers, the web interface becomes completely unresponsive.

when logged into the PCH via telnet, I can see the download is still progressing, and my shell is still reasonably snappy.

when this happens, the transmission-daemon process uses quite a bit of CPU, fluctuating between 10% to 35%. when the torrent has finished downloading, the web interface is responsive again as it should be.

in settings.json I tried setting max-peers-global: 20 and max-peers-per-torrent: 4 but after restarting Transmission and hitting the web interface (before it died), it said "Downloading from 15 of 17 peers", so I don't know if those options are being honoured.

downloading from a larger number of slower peers doesn't seem to trigger this issue, only fast peers.

I'm at a loss to explain why this is happening. has anyone else come across this before, or have any other ideas?

grant.

edit: I should add that by downloading from "fast peers" I mean peers that can easily flood my internet connection, which is not particularly fast (1.5mbps).

I get the same as this, although my CPU usuage is 90-95%. When download speed is >500Kbs it crashes my PCH after about 2-3 mins. v1.42 never caused it to crash.