New Transmission add-on thread

veehexx wrote:

S-P, i have issues with resuming torrents again, when transmission daemon is stop/started. the 3 .txt files (seeding, idle, download) timestamps are being updated when transmission stops, but they dont have any contents. on transmission being restarted, the 2 torrents i have; one paused, one being checked when they should of gone straight to downloading. also, under the transtop.sh file, are you aware of NO space between '|' and 'awk'? i presume their ment to have spaces? running the latest 2.03 with the updated 'remove' process you did earlier today. at first i thought my issues were permissions, but i've completely removed and reinstalled transmission just to be sure. (I had to reset permissions on various shares sometime last week)

|awk or |awk will work the same :)

thats ok then!

any thoughts on the torrent status issue? another SSH session?

i've rolled back to 2.01 which is working fine now (torrent status being resumed) - i'll stay on this release.


x86 owners... do you see high CPU time when transmission is not verifying? a post above mentions it's possibly related to filesize - regardless of torrent status (pause, downloading, seeding...). a google search seems to sugest it's a bug and not related to anything particular, im just wondering who may be affected..

Quick question... can somebody please recommend the latest **STABLE** version of transmission without any major bugs (no CPU spikes, all web interfaces work, etc). By stable I don't mean the latest patched version which fixed yesterday's problems, I mean a version that is tried and tested and hasn't had bug reports in a long time. I don't care about bells and whistles features, I care about stability and not wasting my time troubleshooting 'stuff'.

My box: Pro Pioneer w/Radiator 4.2.11

Thanks!
Adeptus

i've just gone back to 1.7x and tried various versions, and im wondering if i have issues with my nas! i dont recall having high CPU time for aslong as i've used transmission... i could be wrong on that though.

ok, problems with 2.01 (also happens on 1.77betas, 1.93 and 2.03):
any form of active data transfer with from transmission causes CPU usage to be high.
this seems to cover both the initial annouce period, downloading and seeding torrents. however, idle torrents (sucessfully announced, but no leechers) makes transmission behave normally.
incidentially, i have similar high CPU time (although only briefly tested) on torrentflux and active torrents.

what could be the cause? hdd's not on HCL (although i have wdidle3 modded a drive)? nas issue? inherent torrent issue? the fact i have a low/under powered duo? or a bug?
come to think of it, i am seeing a higher-than-i'd-like network retransmit count, and network transfers a touch slower than i'd like too....

just done a test...
grabbed a spare HDD and built my duo on that

HCL compatible drive, fresh install, transmission 2.01final and still high CPU time with transmission data throughput, and also on a different network (now at work; full cisco network).
it's starting to look like a transmission issue again... maybe bug report time!

im not sure it's a CPU issue now - almost definitely transmission..

at home im on 400-500kb/s (72k up). work im downloading around 1.25mb/s and getting 100% cpu usage on both networks, so it seems transmission just takes asmuch as is available.

SP - is there anything i can check my end (logs?) to see if there is a cause to it? im guessing that sort of monitoring (if available) will be in dev tools and not something a user can easily get to grips with

@veehexx.

Do you have traffic encryption enabled? The CPU in the Duo isn't very powerful, and when there is a lot of traffic to encrypt or decrypt it could be causing the problems.

You can read about torrent encryption online, it apparently uses the most CPU power.

Could be the issue?.... Maybe check it it increases as traffic increases.

interesting thought - yes i do use it, but even on a single torrent the load is the same. (ie 1 torrent with 10 connections is the same as 30 torrents with 100's of connections)
let me go try......

no difference with encryption off.
out of interest, ma2t, do you have the issue on your duo?