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09-09-2007, 22:06
kolp

Quote:

Originally Posted by TearTox

I already feel so much smarter :D --^

Hey, by the way i did figure it out on my own and got some help from oleo. not like you helped me out as for being smart what does this have to being smart. My buddy brought the router and he read something about downloading with the computer and i found this site with tutorials knowing nothing about what i was doing. And i did follow instructions and i now i have fixed my problems maybe everyone is smart at something but not everything.
And i wont say anything about age but lets just say way younger than you. I should be playing with some lego
10-09-2007, 21:40
Stuckish

Gahh, i can't get this to work.

First problem with the graph
If i install uclibc-opt then nano stops working and just gives me this "Error opening terminal: xterm". This is exactly the same problem as "hanseugen" had on page 7 (post #96) in this thread. It seems it worked for him to just re-install everything but that does not work for me ..

Main problem ..
Well, it does not work at all :) When i choose push on a torrent i just get the infamous "/opt/share/www/cgi-bin/transmission.cgi: kill: 9: (335) - No such process" error ..

I have read other people that has the same problem and have tried a lot of stuff but still can't get it to work.

Is it any problem with read/write access to the disk? I think it looks like my disk's is read/write .. when i type mount i get ..

/dev/discs/disc0/part2 on /tmp/harddisk type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 on /tmp/harddisk/part1 type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/discs/disc1/part1 on /tmp/harddisk/part2 type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 on /opt type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 on /opt/share/stordisk type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/discs/disc1/part1 on /opt/share/mybook type ext3 (rw,noatime)

Well .. any help would be nice :)
10-09-2007, 21:51
oleo

It is assumed that transmssiond is started through transmission_watchdog when you are using transmission.cgi. If transmissiond is stopped/paused/not running then you get informational message like (kill, not running, ...) This is not a problem if you know what you are doing. You can administer torrents even faster if transmissiond is not running. When finished with huge rearangements the you can unpause and restart with watchdog.

transmission_watchdog is run every 30 minutes or so through cron process. That's why there is no startup script for transmissiond. Although I've seen that some people run transmission_watchdog at system startup, I do not recommend such practice.

Problems to nano are not related to uclibc-opt but rather to some missing libraries. Try

Code:

LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 /opt/bin/nano

to see list of required libs (ncurses, ...)

If using oleg firmware, then create /etc/fstab for disk entries. Thi is recommended way for mounting partitions. Also there should be swap partition.
10-09-2007, 21:55
Stuckish

Ohh, thanx for the quick reply (and i guess i do not really know what im doing, trying at least hehe)

anyways .. what about the nano problem. You have any idea why that is. As soon as i install uclibc-opt_0.9.28-12_mipsel.ipk nano stops working .. and when i remove it nano works again ..

Is uclibc-opt_0.9.28-12_mipsel.ipk only to get the graph working?

Update:
Sorry, tha nano part was not in you message before hehe.
10-09-2007, 22:13
Stuckish

[admin@Asus harddisk]$ LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 /opt/bin/nano
libncurses.so.5 => /opt/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x2ab02000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /opt/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x2aad7000)
libc.so.0 => /opt/lib/libc.so.0 (0x2ab9f000)
ld-uClibc.so.0 => /opt/lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 (0x2aac0000)
[admin@Asus harddisk]$

This is what i get .. sorry if im stupid but is this a list of packages that i have installed or is it what i do not have installed .. or maybe just a list of what i need?

Well, i tried to figure out what these packages are and manged to find ncurses (wich was installed) and then uClibc which is also installed .. the other ones i cannot really figure out what ipk packages to install ..

Puh .. think i should sleep now. It's hard to be a simple windows developer and learn this linux stuff .. stuff in the ms world is so simple (at least when you used to them hehe)
10-09-2007, 23:41
oleo

what about

Code:

export TERM=vt100 nano

Using uclibc-opt is cruical for proper operation of all packages. I would recomment reinstalling dependent packages.
11-09-2007, 22:52
Stuckish

I just get ..

[admin@Asus root]$ export TERM=vt100
[admin@Asus root]$ nano
Error opening terminal: vt100.

What packages is the depending ones? As i said in the previous post i can figure out some of them but not all .. sorry if i'm a complete noob but we all should learn sometime :)

Does it matter in wich order the packages is installed?
12-09-2007, 08:40
oleo

I would try installing termcap. Mine nano works.

Code:

ipkg info nano
24-10-2007, 14:35
Aramaki

Quote:

Originally Posted by oleo

Transmission package does this web UI without need for

This figure shows transfer logs and command buttons for CGI interface:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4...emonlogav6.png

What version do you use?

i have different image and no links

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2369/transfersr7.png

By the way - Transmission 0.90 Released! Posted by John Clay on 24/10/07

When will be it available from repository?
24-10-2007, 16:53
oleo

I have removed links. They were only distracting.
I have tested some version in between 0.82 and 0.9 and I must stay that backend really had some changes that I am unhappy with. Namely libevent instead of threads. 0.9 will be tested and then released as ipkg.
24-10-2007, 17:23
Aramaki

Quote:

Originally Posted by oleo

I have removed links. They were only distracting.
I have tested some version in between 0.82 and 0.9 and I must stay that backend really had some changes that I am unhappy with. Namely libevent instead of threads. 0.9 will be tested and then released as ipkg.

i believe that you know better about libevent and threads :)

i'll wait impatiently
17-11-2007, 04:54
oleo

transmission_0.93+r3834-1_mipsel.ipk is now available.

With introdution of 0.9x libtransmission library many changes happened.
Most notable is new developer, that brought new ideas such as libevent
instead of threads, encryption support, PEX, ban peers, ..., and new bugs.
2GB single file limit, scrape problems, etc are now solved. Please report your findings here.

So beware before upgrading from 0.82 and prior to 0.93 and later. COMPLETE
YOUR DOWNLOADS BEFORE UPGRADING OR YOU WILL LOSE DATA!
17-11-2007, 23:16
lyka

could be possible to add a button for upload a file in "source" folder, directly from pc? Just like torrential or sctcs.
19-11-2007, 21:18
dzontra

transmission 0.93 consumes lot of memory, maybe too much for router.

Can someone confirm?

regards
20-11-2007, 08:48
oleo

I've also noticed that. But my router has 64MB ant this seems not to be a problem.
20-11-2007, 09:18
zheka_ppp

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Quote:

Originally Posted by oleo

I've also noticed that. But my router has 64MB ant this seems not to be a problem.

Didn't notice that. Eating less than 10M.
But in 0.82 I had about 10 multithreaded processes and only 3 process threads now.
But I have problem with upload rate when downloading. Even when download rate is limited.

http://wl500g.info/attachment.php?at...1&d=1195550265
20-11-2007, 09:24
oleo

Quote:

Originally Posted by zheka_ppp

But I have problem with upload rate when downloading. Even when download rate is limited.

This is normal. Transmission shows only good packets. There is a lot of handshakinkg needed for peer communication when downloading from may peers.
20-11-2007, 13:10
polde

Hello,

im also owner of WL-500gp and installed latest transmission and found out that d/u is slow. So i check on forum and they found a problem in client but is already fix in build 3846.

http://transmission.m0k.org/forum/vi...ht=slow+upload

please make new transmission build to make us happy :D
20-11-2007, 13:32
wirespot

Enabling swap should eliminate memory space problems. You should enable swap anyway, just in case. rtorrent for example also goes over 32 MB when hashing or navigating torrent info and will crash without swap enabled.
20-11-2007, 20:52
oleo

Quote:

Originally Posted by polde

please make new transmission build to make us happy :D

Done in Changeset #7326
20-11-2007, 21:08
polde

Can you also update transmission ipk.

thx for update oleo
20-11-2007, 21:17
oleo

It will show eventually. Depending on Autobuild NUDI load.
20-11-2007, 21:18
vaikis

Quote:

Originally Posted by oleo

Done in Changeset #7326

sorry for stupid question, but how to upgrade to latest version ?
20-11-2007, 21:23
polde

hello,

i think its just ipkg install transmission but first download everything on 0.8x because it can corrupt your files!
21-11-2007, 11:27
oleo

Quote:

Originally Posted by vaikis

sorry for stupid question, but how to upgrade to latest version ?

Code:

ipkg-opt update ipkg-opt upgrade

An as polde said. First complete downloads and put Transmission into pause.
21-11-2007, 18:22
Zapt

Thanks oleo for your work, I really like the possibility of the Asus being a torrent machine...

I have some trouble starting the torrents. The Webinterface says:

Quote:

status not found for /tmp/harddisk/torrent/work/TORRENTNAME.torrent.

What's up with that?

It also says:

Quote:

Unable to find recent transfer stats in syslog

When I add a new torrent through the "Fetch" button, I get: "started Start: 21 Nov 19:33"

But none of the torrents ever start...
21-11-2007, 20:29
oleo

Press HELP and read FAQ.
It is likely that transmissiond is not running. At start sometimes it takes several seconds for torrent to start and transmissiond write its .status file as it is allocating disk space and contacting tracker. Configure path to your syslog file properly for cumulative statistics!
21-11-2007, 21:50
Zapt

/opt/share/www/cgi-bin/transmission.cgi: kill: 776: (573) - No such process Stopping transmissison!

I read the FAQ but that doesn't help either

cat: /opt/var/run/transmission.pid: No such file or directory /opt/share/www/cgi-bin/transmission.cgi: kill: 776: Usage: kill [-s sigspec | -signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [exitstatus] Stopping
22-11-2007, 11:22
oleo

This means that there is nothing to kill as transmissiond crashed. Reasons for crashing could be various. First try to follow watchdog restart to see arguments ot the transmissiond startup with the command

Code:

sh -x /opt/sbin/transmisison_watchdog

If it starts and works for some time than this could be a transmissiond but. Otherwise examine your working conditions.
22-11-2007, 20:13
Zapt

Still the same errors. I have been using the HOWTO of wengi...

Quote:

sh -x transmission_watchdog

let's the watchdog start but after like 10 seconds or so it stops with this:

Quote:

+ [ ! -e /tmp/harddisk/torrent/active-torrents.txt ]
+ cat /tmp/harddisk/torrent/active-torrents.txt
+ sleep 5
+ [ -f /opt/var/run/transmission.pid ]
+ ulimit -c 60000
+ transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var/run/transmission.pid /tmp/harddisk/torrent/active-torrents.txt
+ warning Transmission daemon restarted!
+ logger -t transmission_watchdog -p warning Transmission daemon restarted!
+ sleep 5
+ exit 1
+ _exit
+ rm /tmp/harddisk/torrent/work/.watchdog
23-11-2007, 09:05
oleo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zapt

let's the watchdog start but after like 10 seconds or so it stops with this:

This is normal. You must follow program with top or ps ot see if it is still working. To see when daemon crashed, just go to the $HOME/.transmission and issue ls -l for core files existance.

FYI. Latest transmissiond did not crashed for me yet. So I assume, that you have troubles with understandig how all this works.
23-11-2007, 12:14
zheka_ppp

oleo, please answer, is there a way to make transmission preallocate file to final size when downloading ?
Yesterday I re-attached my external hdd from asus to laptop to copy big amount of downloaded data.
For the file downloaded by transmission dd show only 3.7Mbyte/s ! While for another files, which I transferred to asus via samba or ftp copy rate is about 40Mbyte/s. I suggest the reason is fragmentation of files downloaded using transmission.

Thanks, Eugene
23-11-2007, 13:08
oleo

If you think thant fragmentation is a problem, then you could test this by copying files to another directory on disk and then compare transfer rate of the original and copy.
Then you can file a ticket at http://transmission.m0k.org/trac and ask for feature request.
24-11-2007, 15:26
polde

hello oleo

is this normal that 4 transmissiond are running while i only download 2 torrent files. and yeah my load of router is around 3-4 to much for normal work with router.

226 ? SNs 0:01 transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u 100 -d 100 -i /opt/var/run/transmission.pid /mnt/torrent/active-torrents.txt
229 ? SN 0:00 \_ transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u 100 -d 100 -i /opt/var/run/transmission.pid /mnt/torrent/active-torrents.txt
230 ? SN 1:15 \_ transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u 100 -d 100 -i /opt/var/run/transmission.pid /mnt/torrent/active-torrents.txt
231 ? RN 101:25 \_ transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u 100 -d 100 -i /opt/var/run/transmission.pid /mnt/torrent/active-torrents.txt

thx in advice
Polde
24-11-2007, 18:55
oleo

For 0.9x number of threads is 4. For 0.8x this depends on number of torrents.
29-11-2007, 14:21
zheka_ppp

Upgraded and working...

Code:

Nov 29 17:07:24 EVGASUS transmissiond[11253]: Transmission daemon 0.94+ (4000) started - http://transmission.m0k.org/

Thank you, Oleo and transmission guys.
29-11-2007, 18:17
oleo

Quote:

Originally Posted by zheka_ppp

Upgraded and working...

Working what?
29-11-2007, 18:19
zheka_ppp

Quote:

Originally Posted by oleo

Working what?

Sorry for my English. Transmission's working like a charm :)
29-11-2007, 19:19
dzontra

Quote:

Originally Posted by oleo

For 0.9x number of threads is 4. For 0.8x this depends on number of torrents.

Hmm. I'm having 3 threads using 0.9x, regardless number of torrents or their status. Do I need to tweak something or...?

Code:

13921 admin 6236 S transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var 13924 admin 6236 S transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var 13925 admin 6236 S transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var
29-11-2007, 19:55
oleo

3 theads is correct.

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