Problems with Deluge (latest and previous build)

[MikeMike]

Whenever I load up Deluge, it is fine. However, upon beginning/continuing a torrent file the GUI tends to lock up/freeze intermittently. If I completely stop/pause the torrent everything is fine, but otherwise the client is next to dead.

Another thing: As of this latest build, sometimes Deluge will not properly exit entirely and cause a lagfest in Windows. It reports to be using no resources, but everything is slow and stuttered. This past time I had to manually close three or four duplicate processes of deludged.exe *32 before everything returned to normal.

Using XP x64, completely updated.

[milopapara]

I have the same problem with deluge 1.1.8 whenever i start a new torrent the GUI seems to be unresponsive, the problem remains even if i stop/pause the torrent file. My OS is win xp 32.

[andar]

I've been playing around with this on my VM and found that "fixing" the crippling microsoft did to the tcp/ip stack has solved the 'laggy' issue. I used a program from this site: http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads to increase my max half-open connections to 100.

[MikeMike]

Tried that and this is my result:

[MikeMike]

Well I give up. I'm going to another client. Thanks anyways.

Best wishes

[Fugitive1962]

So once you have patched xp do have to change the limits in Deluge.

[andar]

Well I give up. I'm going to another client. Thanks anyways.

Best wishes

I understand your frustration, but give 1.2 a try when it comes out.. I've changed the design quite a bit to alleviate these types of issues.

[DelMonkey]

I''ve encountered the same problem (regular gui freezing) and I may try the patch.

Surely any problems with connections should not affect the UI at all, given that the UI should be running in a separate thread or with some form of Model View Controller or equivalent to prevent a connection wait from stalling the GUI. OK I admit I'm just speculating on the cause of the issue being thread related given that I don't have knowledge of the program (or any Python programming ability for that matter ).

[johnnyg]

Deluge is threaded although I think some calls in 1.1.x are blocking.
Threads (and concurrency in general) are somewhat hindered in python due to the GIL.

[andar]

The UI communicates to the daemon through xmlrpc and if there aren't enough half-open connection slots available then it will appear to stall or lag waiting for a slot. This has been fixed in 1.2 since we use a different rpc method with only 1 connection, instead of multiple as with xmlrpc. Furthermore, the new classic mode runs in a single process, so for those not utilizing the daemon functionality there are no rpc connections at all.