Howdy.  I've had my unRAID running for the longest, but I recently installed Transmission and now I am experiencing random freezes when downloading.  Is there an alternative to Transmission that works with unRAID and CouchPotato?

 

Thanks!

What's your config?

Do you have enought ram ? cpu ?  ... ?

Where is transmission located ? HD outside unRAID ? cache disk ? USB stick ? ... ?

... ?

Ah... my bad, yes, here is the system setup:

 

unRAID: v5.0-beta14

System: ASRock - 880GM-LE

CPU: AMD AthlonTM II X2 4450e - 3.009 GHz

Cache: 256 kB

Memory: 8960 MB - 533 MHz

Network: 1000Mb/s - Full Duplex

 

Transmission is located on my cache drive.  Today before a "powerdown -r" I noticed my cache drive was spun down and I have it not to.  But every time I restart the system and go to transmission there is some sort of transfer going on.  If I have no transfers going on the system doesn't "freeze" (I shouldn't use the term freeze since the system is not really freezing, just every plugin and the unraid menu.

 

EDIT:

I need to copy the syslog.txt next time BEFORE the "powerdown -r" because every time I copy it after the reboot it only has the power up log.

 

I managed to connect to my unRAID box through ssh (forgot to get the syslog but...) it said my cache was mount readonly.  AGAIN this only happens when I use transmission.  I had it running for 18 days straight, as soon as I used transmission it starts acting up.

Update:  I changed my download folder to a share (WD20EARX) instead of my cache drive (Seagate 7200.11) and it seems to work now.  Anybody know of any known issues with Seagate 7200.11 drive as cache drive?  Everything else seems to work fine.  Or is it just using the cache drive as download the problem?

 

Thanks.

 

EDIT:  I also switched version from 5.0 beta 14 to 5.0 RC4.  Not sure if that helped or not.  I will wait for current torrents to finish downloading and will try moving back to cache drive (seagate 7200.11) and testing to see if it "freezes" again...

I know you said you've solved the issue but one thing I would point out is that RAM you have, if it is really 533MHz, is really slow.

I am on unRAID 5.0-RC5 now, and since I switched out of the Seagate 7200.11 to store my torrents to a WD20EARX my box runs forever.  Something with that drive and transmission,... they don't play nice together.  I have latest firmware on the Seagate 7200.11 also, SD1B.  I keep ALL my programs on /mnt/cache/custom  (without a . on custom because of Plex's memory leak, not sure if that's been solved yet or not) but I had to switch torrents to be stored on one of my disks and excluded caching on that drive (my "Data" share drive,) now I have "Data" and "torrents" on that drive.

 

In re: to memory speed, I have never had any issues with the memory speed.  Not sure why that wold really matter, it's just downloading, serving files and streaming video (3 different kinds:  AirVideo, Plex and Twonky but I probably use Plex the most)  I use Twonky for music since it's faster to access my music via folder mode, and AirVideo is just for iPad/iPhone and a Mac I have, but I've been using Plex for iOS lately so I might just switch completely to Plex on iOS/Mac and remove AirVideo...