Controlling (torrent) downloads thru webpage

[oleo]

You have problem with syslog. Normaly hartbeat is written every 5 minutes.
Eg. you should have lines in /opt/var/log/messages like

Feb 19 08:30:06 transmissiond[2078]: 1171870206 4 dl 145.39 ul 24.87 ld 1.23
Feb 19 08:35:06 transmissiond[2078]: 1171870506 4 dl 188.69 ul 25.14 ld 1.27
Feb 19 08:40:06 transmissiond[2078]: 1171870806 4 dl 172.64 ul 25.66 ld 1.48

If they are nonexistent, then check if syslog is running or not. Maybe you did not kill original syslog and you have duplicate syslogd running. Mine runs

/sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /opt/var/log/messages -S -l 7

Tracker announce interval clamped to 3hours instead of 5 minutes in Transmission 1463-4.
See http://trac.nslu2-linux.org/optware/changeset/5538 for details

[zavant]

Yes, you are right.
This script did not work:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for syslogd
#
# Stop myself if running
if [ -n "`pidof syslogd`" ]; then
/bin/killall syslogd 2>/dev/null
fi

/sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /opt/var/log/messages -S -l 7

When I have corrected it as it is:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for syslogd
#
# Stop myself if running
if [ -n "`pidof syslogd`" ]; then
killall syslogd 2>/dev/null
fi

/sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /opt/var/log/messages -S -l 7

it has worked.

Thank you.

[oleo]

Corrected readme for this issue.

[wirespot]

The above piece of script is overkill. It's much simpler to do this:

killall syslogd 2>/dev/null && \
/sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /opt/var/log/messages -S -l 7

[oleo]

The above piece of script is overkill. It's much simpler to do this:

killall syslogd 2>/dev/null && \
/sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /opt/var/log/messages -S -l 7

this script fails if syslogd is not running!

[hanseugen]

After reading this post and trying everything you wrote, my transmission-torrent runs now with great 220k down. Thank you!
But now I have a problem: I don't know at which step I made a mistake, but if I login now with Telnet/SSL and for example enter 'nano' it does not start. It shows only 'Error opening terminal: xterm'. MC works, but it only shows the directories *.cedit,*.mc,*.httpd.conf. But with 'ls/' or 'vi' I can access all of my files.
I think the error exist after installing uclibc-opt or after enter '/sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /opt/var/log/messages -S -l 7'.
What can I do? I don't want to refirm my router (WL-500gp with 1.9.2.7-7f) again..:-(
Perhaps it is important, this is my ipkg.conf:

src unslung http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable         
dest root /

===========
okay:

awk '/^Package:/{system("ipkg install -force-reinstall -force-defaults " $2)}' /opt/lib/ipkg/status

helps...

[calebz]

Gettin trouble resuming torrents after crash.
Strange the older version I had didnt cause any troubles with stability.

It marks torrents as paused for no reason and gives IO errors.


If I try to push them I get /opt/share/www/cgi-bin/transmission.cgi: kill: 9: (5828) - No such process

[oleo]

No problem with stability for me. This paused is really strange. It looks like tracker related thing.

[calebz]

Well you had to change something related to tracker stuff cause before this after hard reboot the daemon simply checked the files and started again.
Now I need to delete the files to make it start again.

[oleo]

What I see from your image is that maybe you do not have proper time configured at router. As started shows 1.jan 1970! So check jour NTP config if this is the case.

[velcrow]

Have been using enhanced-ctorrent for a while with no complaints but would be interested in making the change over to a Web GUI.

Have done a search and read the posts ...but is the a definitive up-to-date tutorial for install ...or should stop whining and put one together

Thanks in advance for any info

[oleo]

Look at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/Transmission

[wengi]

Hi there,

i have a WL-HDD with transmission installed.
Its working fine until now.

syslog is running and transmissiond is reporting to /opt/var/log/messages.
so far, so good.

The strange thing: There are no entries like

Feb 19 08:30:06 transmissiond[2078]: 1171870206 4 dl 145.39 ul 24.87 ld 1.23
Feb 19 08:35:06 transmissiond[2078]: 1171870506 4 dl 188.69 ul 25.14 ld 1.27
Feb 19 08:40:06 transmissiond[2078]: 1171870806 4 dl 172.64 ul 25.66 ld 1.48

I only see start and stop messages of transmissiond.
Webinterface shows 'Unable to find recent transfer stats in syslog'

Any idea?

wengi

PS: my setup is done as explained here. (but not translated to english until now)
PPS: By the way. Is it possible to set a seed ratio or seed time for transmission?

[velcrow]

Thanks oleo - & Moody Blue for the Tutorial

[lourenco]

Hello

I've just bought a WL-500gP and installed latest -7f oleg's firmware... Amazing I must say... Then to get similar functionalities as DM I manage to install transmition pack (thanks all for tut's - oleo, macsat, other's... - and especially moody blue - Portugal Rules! hehehe)

I haven't installed/configured wondershaper yet but I noticed that with abou 7-8 torrents downloading/seeding my bandwidth gets all eaten by transmission (I cannot browse the web fluently - I'm using wireless: don't really use ethernet cable, yet)

The theorical spec's of my connection are: 12Mbs dl / 400kbs ul...

This is normal, with these number of torrents DL - arround 64kbs dl/ 75kbs ul- or wondershaper will make some wonders with my connection?

I guess that with such wide bandwidth that shouldn't be a problem or the hardware can't handle that much traffic?

What can/must I do to, somehow, get better overall performance?

I want to install rddtool but I'm afraid it'll make it even worse...

Cheers
Lourenco