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Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)

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Originally Posted by pipeline (Post 109960)

DataPath :
I agree that would be nice... as im sure the servers at your work are trying to leech content from your supercomputer with vast media reserves! But I doubt i'd be able to spend time on that though... perhaps someone else would be inspired to add something like that.

It's against IT's rules to run P2P at work, and they have network security hardware that would very likely kick my device off the network and blacklist it until I talk to IT and assure them the problem is resolved. I know it does that to virus-infected systems.

So yeah - you might hear from me in a few weeks after I get my tablet. Hopefully I'll be able to cobble together a patch for that.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)

Well Transmission is currently undergoing testing for version 1.0. They have released a version 1.0 Beta/Test 1 which i have compiled and packaged.

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V1.00 Test 1 Test Release Removed since real V1.00 has now been released. See first post for latest download.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)

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Originally Posted by pipeline (Post 119077)

Well Transmission is currently undergoing testing for version 1.0. They have released a version 1.0 Beta/Test 1 which i have compiled and packaged.

Thank you! It seems to work great for me. I like the changes to the gui.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)

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Originally Posted by pipeline (Post 100469)

I just got my 2008 vm setup and am ...
I would suggest using it on less expensive sd cards until real world tests determine prolonged effects.

my guess is that torrent clients thrash their disk files, and will absolutely cause early failure of flash memory, so definitely ensure all files - temporary and final - are not in internal memory.

does os2008 have tmpfs in the kernel, so that you can have a ramdisk backed by a big swap file on external flash, which might reduce the amount of I/O to the cards?

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)

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Originally Posted by pipeline (Post 119077)

Well Transmission is currently undergoing testing for version 1.0. They have released a version 1.0 Beta/Test 1 which i have compiled and packaged.

I'm mainly releasing this test build for bora users since the 0.95 was very short lived and .96 wouldnt build for it (since they backtracked from newer subversion changes in order to stabilize 0.95). That has been resolved and the fixes are back in.

But there are also a few things have changed that might need feedback from maemo 'testers'. They changed the main screen some and i think it looks a little better... the download progress bar is now two-colored to show amount of file downloaded versus 'verified' against hash. Other areas/toolbars can be hidden if you dont like to see them, and theres a 'compact' mode which will show more simulateous downloads if you do such thing on maemo.

Note : Some trackers might give less preference to -beta- releases so depending on your tracker you might get less performance than with the official releases (a real version 1.0 will likely be more 'preferred' and get better download speeds when its released).

OS 2008 V1.0 Beta Test 1 :
http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFi...nook.rev16.deb

OS 2007 V1.0 Beta Test 1 :
http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFi...bora.rev16.deb

Thanks, but could you please make a repository for transmission. It would make it much easier to update and restore from backups.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)

I updated packages to authors official 1.00 Version release. See first post for links.
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MstPrgmr :

I assure you if it was easy to figure out i would have done it long ago.

I created one and app manager did not like it. It started complaining about dependencies of all my packages. If anyone is familiar with the process of setting up a repo (and troubleshooting it), let me know and i'll do that.

Until then, just bookmark http://wardenclyffetower.com/MaemoFiles which is where i keep all the packages which would/should/could be in a repo.

Now that maemo repos themselves are working i might try again.. hard to debug my repo when theirs are failing :)

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)

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Originally Posted by speculatrix (Post 119843)

Well i was hoping to hear back from original author but this is my take (guesstimate) on this (having searched their forums) :

If you are saving downloads to mmc card (instead of internal memory) then :
- Transmission only will use internal storage for caching (sha?) hashes (like checksums) and peer information. I would guess the bandwith of 'writes' to internal memory are order of magnitude like 1:100 for the file size your downloading. Probably negligable for all but the heaviest downloaders.
- Transmission currently -does- have ability to relocate the home directory (where cache files are written), but unfortunately that 'branch' is also used for some file types (socket files) which would not be compatible with relocation to fat/fat32 sd/sdhc cards. If you are a hardcore downloader you could set up (ext2?) partition and try relocating home there with environment variable TRANSMISSION_HOME=/media/mmcwhatever (i cant verify this since my cards are current formatted fat32). If you try this just edit the launcher script /usr/bin/transmission and add that TRANSMISSION home assignment before call to executable.

I asked the author for an alternate variable/setting to relocate just the cache, but he has yet to respond. If he does i'll be sure to post info about it here.. although i'll still probably leave the default to cache hash in /home/user/.transmission.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)

What is the possability of being able to minimise to tray (like pigden) and also have a home applet to monitor the progress (Also start and stop) the downloads?

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)

The minimize to system tray functionality was... problematic. I intentionally had to disable it because it was pretty much crashing the status bar. Does the status bar work properly for pidgin? I thought it was prone to the same behavior.

The setting to disable to system tray is in the config file in /home/user/.trasnmission

Although you -could- reenable it, i'd recommend not doing so.

Re: Transmission (Torrent client for 2008 OS)

got transmission working great on my n800 with os2008. Thanks