Deluge stalling out

[sloggerK]

I've been using deluge for a while now, maybe somewhere between 4 and 8 months, as my primary bit torrent client.
In the last week or so I've suddenly started having a problem.
My torrents stall after about 20 minutes. I can add a torrent. It loads it, connects to peers and seeder, starts downloading, gets up to whatever speed limit I have set, and then proceeds to slow down to 1kb/s or 0kb/s upload or download on active torrents. This is with well seeded torrents, like maybe 40-60 seeders, 70-120 peers. If I remove and re-add the torrent, it will reload, start downloading fine for another 20ish minutes, and then stall to zero.

I do not have this problem using Ubuntu 7.10's built in client, which will sustain dl rates of up 200 kb/s on the same torrent, or with the transmission client, which will download at approximately the same speed without using limiting. Now I'd like to use deluge, mostly because I want to use some of the plugins, particularly the blocklist plugin. However, I have no idea why it's suddenly behaving differently than it has in the past. I'm going to delete my .deluge folder or whatever it's called where the prefs are stored and see if anything changes because the only thought I have is that some pref or something from the previous version is screwing things up (I have 0.5.6.2).

[markybob]

I've been using deluge for a while now, maybe somewhere between 4 and 8 months, as my primary bit torrent client.
In the last week or so I've suddenly started having a problem.
My torrents stall after about 20 minutes. I can add a torrent. It loads it, connects to peers and seeder, starts downloading, gets up to whatever speed limit I have set, and then proceeds to slow down to 1kb/s or 0kb/s upload or download on active torrents. This is with well seeded torrents, like maybe 40-60 seeders, 70-120 peers. If I remove and re-add the torrent, it will reload, start downloading fine for another 20ish minutes, and then stall to zero.

I do not have this problem using Ubuntu 7.10's built in client, which will sustain dl rates of up 200 kb/s on the same torrent, or with the transmission client, which will download at approximately the same speed without using limiting. Now I'd like to use deluge, mostly because I want to use some of the plugins, particularly the blocklist plugin. However, I have no idea why it's suddenly behaving differently than it has in the past. I'm going to delete my .deluge folder and see if anything changes because the only thought I have is that some pref or something from the previous version is screwing things up (I have 0.5.6.2).

you need to start it from the command prompt and wait until that happens again. then take a look at the terminal and you should see an error. let us know what that is so we can help you debug your problem

[sloggerK]

kk. I'll probably repost in about 30 minutes, lol.

[sloggerK]

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deluge
no existing Deluge session
Starting new Deluge session...
deluge_core; using libtorrent 0.13.0.0. Compiled with NDEBUG.
Applying preferences
Pickling state...
Scanning plugin dir /usr/share/deluge/plugins
Initialising plugin TorrentSearch
Initialising plugin SimpleRSS
Initialising plugin WebUi
Initialising plugin TorrentFiles
Initialising plugin TorrentPeers
Initialising plugin TorrentNotification
Initialising plugin WebSeed
Initialising plugin EventLogging
Initialising plugin MoveTorrent
Initialising plugin NetworkHealth
Initialising plugin ExtraStats
Initialising plugin BlocklistImport
Initialising plugin SpeedLimiter
Initialising plugin Locations
Initialising plugin NetworkGraph
Initialising plugin Scheduler
Initialising plugin DesiredRatio
Initialising plugin TorrentCreator
Applying preferences
Showing window
Loading TorrentPeers plugin...
Loading ExtraStats plugin...
Loading TorrentFiles plugin...
Loading LogEvents plugin...
Loading TorrentNotification plugin...
Loading blocklist plugin ...
Pickling state...
Pickling state...
Pickling state...
importing with pgtext
TextReader loading /home/redice/.config/deluge/blocklist.cache
PGTextReader loading
TextBase loading
Starting import
Import finished
Pickling state...
Pickling state...
Pickling state...

Shows stalled status.



Shows random status from w/in first 15 minutes. Throttled to 100 kb/s dl, and 35 kb/s ul.

As can be seen, no error messages thrown in console.

It should be noted that I think the seeding torrent(s) is/are fine (usually there are only 2 or 3 people downloading, and plenty of peers), but the downloading torrent is clearly not. (No matter which torrent is downloading).

[markybob]

what does the test active port button in preferences say? also, post a screenshot of your network preferences

[sloggerK]

Test active port button says can't connect, which is not new. It's always done that. Unless there's an external proxy, I don't think I can forward the port correctly. (On a university router.) I am using NAT-PMP and PeX plugins. In any case, in the past, I've never had issues, I think because I've just relied on my client to initiate connections. Maybe I need to start using an external proxy of some kind? That said, my current session seems to be lasting for more than 30 minutes for the first time in the last week. It might be that I just needed to set to only download one torrent at a time... is it a possibility that doing 2 at once would cause problems? Maybe drowns ACKs or something.


Network prefs?
Ubuntu 7.10 defaults everything to a 'roaming mode' controlled the network manager panel applet.
Wired ethernet. eth0 interface. tg3 driver. Not sure what info you're looking for... an IP address?