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#1 2008-06-18 16:22:03

Roberth
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Torrent applicasions make my computer freeze

Hello

I experience that my computer completely freeze after a while when i start an bittorrent program(tried with transmission and deluge).

Anyone know whats wrong?

EDIT:

This started by the way when I began to download huge torrents from around 4 gb to 24 gb.

Last edited by Roberth (2008-06-18 17:04:47)


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#2 2008-06-18 18:10:47

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Re: Torrent applicasions make my computer freeze

This could be problem of the application... Try some smaller torrents. Also check whether the client rearanges the files in order to avoid fragmentaion... My computer becomes unusefull for quite some time if that option is checked and I download something big. Also did you try something based on libtorrent or rb_libtorrent?


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#3 2008-06-18 19:29:06

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Re: Torrent applicasions make my computer freeze

Deluge uses libtorrent. By the way, this freeze only seem to occour when verifying a large and small torrent.

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#4 2008-06-18 19:51:13

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Re: Torrent applicasions make my computer freeze

no deluge uses rb_libtorrent.

there is 2 libtorrent. the one used in rtorrent client. and the other one made by rasterbar. the latest one is used by deluge.

could you be more specific ? when ? where ? what ?

i guess a torrent is not large and small at the same time. you talk about 2 torrents a large one and a small one. and it happens when the large one is checked ?

on what filesystem are stored the p2p file ? are they moved after the download is completed ? towards another filesystem ...

and so on ...

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#5 2008-06-18 19:57:39

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Re: Torrent applicasions make my computer freeze

Rule out the filesystem by starting torrents on a mounted tmpfs (man mount).

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#6 2008-06-18 20:14:19

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Re: Torrent applicasions make my computer freeze

apaige wrote:

Rule out the filesystem by starting torrents on a mounted tmpfs (man mount).

Is that a suggestion or the sollution?

The torrents are on my /home filesystem which is a ext3 filesystem and the downloaded data is stored on the same filesystem. And this occoures also when I download, only when seeding a torrent, the computer doesn't freeze.

I'm beginning to suspect that this is a hardware issue, since I have some heat issues with my harddrive and it can't handle this. Downloading from bittorrent worked fine when I saved the downloads on my external harddrive which is now broken.

EDIT: ....and it now happens when I'm only seeding.

Last edited by Roberth (2008-06-19 08:40:24)


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#7 2008-06-19 18:54:36

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Re: Torrent applicasions make my computer freeze

I just wanted to comment that I've been having the same problem with Deluge. After playing around in its interface for a random but usually short interval of time, my computer stops responding. I can move my mouse cursor, but nothing else works.  This is with an average of about twenty-five DVD-rips seeding off a 40GB XFS partition. I have no clue what's wrong, and am just going to try Rtorrent for now. Robert, however, may want to know that it's not necessarily his hardware. I have a rather new Antec Earthwatts (SeaSonic) PSU and I keep my hard disks cool by physically pointing a table fan at them (seriously).

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#8 2008-06-19 19:06:12

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Re: Torrent applicasions make my computer freeze

My macbook hangs when running rtorrent and madwifi is reconnecting.

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#9 2008-06-19 19:27:23

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Re: Torrent applicasions make my computer freeze

Maybe not related, but...
I had the same issue using Deluge in VMs. The solution was to limit the number of connections and the upload rate. Fixed my freezing issues.

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#10 2008-06-22 15:44:10

Roberth
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Re: Torrent applicasions make my computer freeze

Hmmmm I get the exact same issue now when for example extracting rar'ed HD movie on 8 GB, the computer completely locks up and not even my mouse can be moved.

manimal347: I think I have a different issue. I also experience that the picture is lagging behind when playing HD video with mplayer.

Last edited by Roberth (2008-06-22 15:45:55)


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