Controlling (torrent) downloads thru webpage

[polde]

Can you also update transmission ipk.

thx for update oleo

[oleo]

It will show eventually. Depending on Autobuild NUDI load.

[vaikis]

Done in Changeset #7326

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

[polde]

hello,

i think its just ipkg install transmission but first download everything on 0.8x because it can corrupt your files!

[oleo]

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

ipkg-opt update
ipkg-opt upgrade

An as polde said. First complete downloads and put Transmission into pause.

[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:

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

What's up with that?

It also says:

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...

[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!

[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

[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

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.

[Zapt]

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

sh -x transmission_watchdog

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

+ [ ! -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

[oleo]

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.

[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

[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.

[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

[oleo]

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