Is your Mac crashing? If you use Transmission the BitTorrent program, that's why.

[BlueRevolution]

While I haven't had any serious issues(like the OP had), I have noticed that Transmission does tend to freak out more than any other torrent program I've used.

Case in point when dealing with large files: Transmission will REALLY eat up ram and go unresponsive at times.

I'm thinking I might go back to Vuze for a bit, but I really like the look of Transmission.

And yes, as others have stated, Transmission does tend to access the HDD more than any other torrent program. I'm beginning to think it MIGHT be what's causing my HDD to make clicking(almost like waking from sleep*tick tick* sounds) every once in awhile.

You want to switch to Vuze becuase Transmission runs too slow? That's like switching to Windows because you got tired of the security holes in Mac OS X.

You are both correct, that it what I was trying to say, they can't get random files only one's you allow.

It was the "by default" bit that made it sound like Transmission could be made to share your entire hard drive if you changed the wrong setting.

There's probably a good reason why people use Transmission over XTorrent, but I've found XTorrent to be awesome.

XTorrent is a leeching client. It isn't designed to make and share new content.

 

[soms]

You want to switch to Vuze becuase Transmission runs too slow? That's like switching to Windows because you got tired of the security holes in Mac OS X.



It was the "by default" bit that made it sound like Transmission could be made to share your entire hard drive if you changed the wrong setting.



XTorrent is a leeching client. It isn't designed to make and share new content.

Not sure I follow. I used Vuze when it was called Azureus, and it always had consistently higher speeds(even on the same torrent).

 

[BlueRevolution]

I was actually thinking of system resource usage rather than connection speed. Vuze/Azureus is Java-based, so it's super heavy. It used to give my Power Mac kernel panics on a regular basis.

 

[soms]

I was actually thinking of system resource usage rather than connection speed. Vuze/Azureus is Java-based, so it's super heavy. It used to give my Power Mac kernel panics on a regular basis.

Ahhhh that's right I totally forgot that. I used it on my previous Mac which only had 1 gig of ram an it ran terribly(great speeds tho)

 

[pooryou]

Just had the same total crash that is described in this thread after trying Transmission for a couple of days. This is how I found this thread, didn't know of the problem otherwise.

Clearly still an issue.

 

[flignar]

Death by BitTorrent? (Powerbook G4)

I cannot with certainly say that BitTorrent, specifically, is the culprit here but I have a PB g4 with 10.5.11 and BitTorrent is the sole software I've been using.

Once I launched it, it went through "checking" the torrents I was getting, the screen went black, spilled out some diagnostic jagron I couldn't find meaning within, and it would not restart - it would shut down seconds after the Apple appeared.

Off to the shop - McMobile, pretty much the best independent Apple shop in the USA, here in Philly, since 1986. Yukio is 'the Mac Sensei'.

Anyway, he found it was the drive reformatted and restored and home I went. Five minutes later... crash boom to the moon Alice.

Back to Yukio...he says "The hard drive format somehow changed from Mac Extended Journaled to non-Journaled which prevented Mac OS from loading (thus it shuts off)"

So should I verify that further? I think not.

Granted, it's not the latest OS or version of BitTorrent, but this thread seemed to apply do I'm willing to post my experience.

 

[Chase R]

Transmission devs have done a great job re-configuring the way that the app uses resources. It no longer has any "slow-down" effect that it might have had in the past.

Vuze on the other hand... Now that app will turn your Mac into a sluggggg.

 

[pelsar1]

Yosemite 10.10.1 Retina 15inch

no question about it.....the crash started after i opened up transmission. Even after i had it closed the crashes kept coming. Eventually i redid the PRAM and all was well. Foolishly i opened transmission again and bam, another crash.

 

[Yumid]

Never had any problems with crashes but I have had that things happen where you try and shut down but it just blank screens. Only way is to force shut or open safari then for some reason it lets you access the apple icon again.

Reading this thread as I'm downloading something on my newly wiped mac for the first time. With transmission haha. Wish I would have found it 5 minutes earlier.

 

[thepawn]

I've not had it completely crash my computer, but over the last two weeks it's been basically deadlocking the network. I have to ifconfig down and up the interface to get it to restore the network (instead of rebooting).

 

[SuperMatt]

I've tried 3 different torrent clients and all of them crash my computer at times. I have an ancient computer (2006 Mac Pro), so maybe the I/O gets overloaded. I'm going to try and limit the download speed and see if that helps.

 

[Dave_O]

A fairly new client, from the Vuze/Azureus open source project - https://www.biglybt.com/

qbittorrent is another, from utorrent - https://www.qbittorrent.org/

 

[Unknownnnn]

It's funny I stumbled on this thread while thinking it may only be a QBittorrent issue.
But apparently, it's a Mac issue. Must be some bad programming deep in the kernel.
Has anyone tried the dockerized versions to see if helps?

A very good description of the problem: https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/458093/250519

 

[MacCheetah3]

I’ve been using Transmission occasionally for many years, updating fairly promptly when new versions are released — currently on v4.0.5. Although, my frequency is at most using it an average of once per month.

 

[bogdanw]

It's funny I stumbled on this thread while thinking it may only be a QBittorrent issue.
But apparently, it's a Mac issue. Must be some bad programming deep in the kernel.

I use qBittorrent every day, version 4.6.4 lt20 at the moment, and I never encountered that issue.

 

[Unknownnnn]

I've had this issue at least since Catalina (4-5 years ago). Saying "at least" because prior to that I don't exactly remember.
It's so terrible that I hate to try to reproduce it. O.w. one of my guesses is that it only happens when using my external HDD formatted with exFat.
Had to Force shutdown three times when torrenting two big titles (30+ GBs each, and not simultaneously) in the past day, both causing the issue right after around 250 MBs have been downloaded. (download speed: 2-4 MB/s. Upload: not much at all)
Of course libtorrent has a million options to play with (e.g. async IO threads cnt) but the severity of the issue prohibits an easy triage... Unless maybe if I try it within a VM running Mac as a guest. 🫣

 

[Unknownnnn]

Ok. I retried those torrents on my internal SSD and they went kinda fine. Meaning that QB still stalled at around 250 MBs, required me to exit it which took 30-60 seconds to close (whereas when writing to the external exFat it'd never close unless Forced Exit), but the OS kept working fine and I was able to reopen QB and continue the rest w/o any problems (whereas when writing to the exFat, it wouldn't reopen until rebooted, and even then, it'd say the file is corrupted and I needed to start from the get-go).

 

[jagooch]

I’m not using Transmission and my Mac is crashing. Now what?