Router hangs up transmission

Hi All !

I installed Oleg's newest firmware (1.9.2.7-10) with transmission torrent client using Wengi's manual onto my Asus WL500gx.
The installation was successful and I could start downloading some torrents with transmission.

But after a while (5-6 hours) the router hangs up, it can not be accessible either via ssh or admin web page and internet can not be accessed either.
Only the ping returns. During the period the network download/upload doesn't seem to be very high at all.
I have to turn it off an on in order to work again.

Syslog doesn't contain any error, only the restart can be seen after the last transmissiond entry:

...
Apr 26 19:45:05 transmissiond[795]: 1209231905 3 dl 97.83 ul 0.00 ld 1.20
Apr 26 19:47:34 ntp client: Synchronizing time with time.nist.gov ...
Apr 26 19:50:12 transmissiond[795]: 1209232212 3 dl 93.25 ul 0.00 ld 1.02
Apr 26 19:55:12 transmissiond[795]: 1209232512 3 dl 90.95 ul 0.00 ld 1.19
Apr 26 20:00:02 /opt/sbin/cron[3302]: (admin) CMD (nice /opt/sbin/transmission_watchdog)
Apr 26 20:00:06 transmissiond[795]: 1209232806 3 dl 99.46 ul 0.00 ld 1.12
Jan 1 01:00:04 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.1.3
Jan 1 01:00:04 kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.1.3

Cold somebody help me and give some hints what kind of traces or logs can I make in order to analyse the problem ? Or what should I check ?

Thanks:

Robert

I suspect disk problems. Try to shorten USB cable to 20 cm. And do e2fsck -f -y at startup.

Hello,

thanks for your help.
I've already tried it with 2 different winchesters, and both of them were instable.
I read that transmission was developed under OpenWrt firmware,
may be I have to try this firmware too.
The actual winchester is a new SATA2 enabled one with good response time,
As you can see, the load wasn't so high, this disk should have process it.

Robert

Today my router broke down again.
Based on the last syslog entry the load wasn't too high (see in red):

Apr 28 08:13:00 dropbear[1727]: Child connection from ::ffff:213.16.111.1:1253
Apr 28 08:13:09 dropbear[1727]: password auth succeeded for 'admin' from ::ffff:213.16.111.1:1253
Apr 28 08:15:04 transmissiond[1233]: 1209363304 4 dl 95.13 ul 8.38 ld 0.60
Apr 28 08:16:01 /opt/sbin/cron[239]: (*system*) RELOAD (/opt/etc/crontab)
Apr 28 08:17:04 transmissiond[1233]: 1209363424 4 dl 109.72 ul 13.26 ld 0.75
Apr 28 08:17:33 dropbear[1727]: exit after auth (admin): Exited normally
Apr 28 08:22:04 transmissiond[1233]: 1209363724 4 dl 89.96 ul 23.39 ld 0.65
Jan 1 01:00:04 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.1.3
Jan 1 01:00:04 kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.1.3 (2008.03.17-18:24+0000)

After restart the load started to increase fast, see my top output bellow.
Could you give me a tip how can I make logs about the transmission daemon ? Maybe the root case of the problem could be found using the log.

top - 13:10:23 up 19 min, 0 users, load average: 2.02, 1.64, 0.80
Tasks: 40 total, 2 running, 38 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 34.8% user, 41.3% system, 0.0% nice, 23.9% idle
Mem: 30164k total, 29596k used, 568k free, 468k buffers
Swap: 506008k total, 2836k used, 503172k free, 18440k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
303 admin 16 0 5236 4928 616 R 45.8 16.3 3:49.67 transmissiond
99 admin 9 0 0 0 0 S 12.6 0.0 0:37.82 usb-storage-0
853 admin 17 0 676 676 508 R 5.8 2.2 0:02.13 top
3 admin 19 19 0 0 0 S 2.8 0.0 0:08.84 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 admin 9 0 0 0 0 S 1.5 0.0 0:02.99 kswapd
302 admin 9 0 5236 4928 616 S 1.2 16.3 0:05.37 transmissiond
2 admin 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 keventd
7 admin 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.56 mtdblockd
5 admin 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush
71 admin 9 0 208 112 112 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.18 syslogd
72 admin 9 0 184 108 108 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.09 klogd
61 admin 9 0 152 72 72 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 telnetd
66 admin 9 0 292 228 168 S 0.0 0.8 0:00.06 httpd
1 admin 8 0 292 148 148 S 0.0 0.5 0:02.07 init
88 admin 9 0 160 92 92 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.13 lpd
90 admin 9 0 144 84 84 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 p910nd
93 admin 9 0 212 88 88 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.03 waveservermain
95 admin 9 0 212 88 88 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.04 rcamdmain
6 admin 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kupdated
100 admin 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
131 admin 9 0 220 112 104 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.07 infosvr
132 admin 9 0 260 160 120 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.26 watchdog
134 admin 8 0 216 92 92 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.03 ntp
155 admin 9 0 232 132 132 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.02 dropbear
74 nobody 9 0 220 116 116 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.00 dnsmasq
76 admin 9 0 316 112 112 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.31 nas
79 admin 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
218 admin 9 0 544 316 268 S 0.0 1.0 0:00.84 nmbd
220 admin 9 0 440 116 116 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.01 smbd
236 admin 9 0 212 116 116 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.08 syslogd
240 admin 9 0 200 168 160 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.01 cron
248 admin 8 0 212 100 100 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.17 busybox_httpd
254 admin 9 0 308 224 164 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.63 upnp
256 admin 9 0 416 320 252 S 0.0 1.1 0:03.85 dropbear
257 admin 9 0 400 344 312 S 0.0 1.1 0:00.87 sh
298 admin 9 0 5236 4928 616 S 0.0 16.3 0:04.04 transmissiond
301 admin 9 0 5236 4928 616 S 0.0 16.3 0:00.00 transmissiond
197 admin 9 0 220 116 116 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.00 udhcpc
215 admin 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kjournald
216 admin 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald

The rapid increase in load condition is most likely as Transmission starts to check the downoaded files - it is nothing unusual.
How much swap space are you using? How many active peers does the torrent has?

My swap is 512M.
One torrent was/is downloading, active peers are about 10-25.
And three others are seeding to 2-4 peers, but sometimes only one seeding is active.

I am using OpenWRT kamikaze 7.09 and is ultra stable.
See http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optw...RT-brcm24Build
for details.

Thank you very much !
I'll try this firmware soon, I will report about the result.

I tried to install the suggested Kamikaze firmware but it was unsuccessful.
I got the error message that the version is wrong.

I used the following trc file:

http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaz...4-squashfs.trx

Is this relay wrong for my Asus WL500gx ?

Thanks !!!