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eDio

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From: Ukraine, Kyiv

Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 422

Does transmission damage my hdd?

It is said, that transmission has very small amount of disk cache and utilizes hdd more intensively, than some other clients. That's why hdd lifetime is slight reduced.

But AFAIK, there is disk cache on OS level also. All writes and reads are cached.

I wonderi if it is safe to use bt client such as transmission, or it is better to use some client like qbittotrrent, where disk cahce can be set explicitly in program preferences to virtually any size (I have 64 MB in qbittorrent)?

Thanks in advance for explanations.

P.S. I'm asking, because I like transmission's simplicity, and qbittorrent, which I'm using now, causes regular disconnects for unknown reason.

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Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: Does transmission damage my hdd?

Tried it once on my lappy and you could hear it grind the HD to a slow death.

Rtorrent and Ktorrent are 10 times better imho.

Theres a bugreport about it also but its unlikely to get fixed since memory footprint is ofc everything that matters
"in real life"

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eDio

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From: Ukraine, Kyiv

Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 422

Re: Does transmission damage my hdd?

Can someone tell me, how to monitor disk usage caused by specified program.
I'm running iotop -p <transmission pid> right now, but it hasn't showed any activity for 5 minutes.

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Does transmission damage my hdd?

Drop caches with "echo 3 >> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" and try again. You can also install dstat from AUR and run "dstat -d --top-bio".