Deluge 1.0: problems with very big torrents (checking files)

[Rakki]

I'm running Deluge on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and generally it is very good application. However I have often problems with certain cases because I have to seed and download some very big torrents (16 - 60GB). Usually they also contain a lot of files.

Bug or problem is that Deluge almost freezes or totally jams Gnome during torrent checking procedure. I have to wait sometimes 0.5 - 1 hour before Gnome responds again. If "Peers" or "Files" tab is clicked when checking procedure is running, this will cause 100% processor load instead of 100% iowait load and it seems to last forever.

My pc:
Athlon 2800XP
1Gb RAM
200Gt + 320Gt harddisks
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron + Deluge 1.0

Edit: changed RC8 to 1.0
Edit 2: Simplified problem description.

[Rakki]

This problem still exists, Deluge jams system almost every time when it is started. Gnome panel and desktop simply doesn't respond to mouse commands. I quit deluge properly with quit command from menu. Despite of that same torrent is always checked through when deluge is started again. Any ideas?

[Rakki]

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[Mindzai]

I've had it download and check a ~40GB torrent containing multiple files with no issues (aside from the fact that checking is very slow but for a torrent that size it's to be expected). The only problem I has was that I had downloaded 70% of the files, but when i upgraded deluge and added the torrent it only found about 40% which was annoying, but in terms of freezing etc I had no issues. Also using Ubunty Hardy.

[caveman_dick]

I'm getting major problems with the re-check. Majority oof the time the re-chaeck get stuck between 5-15% complete. This varies between single files of approx 1Gb and multi-file torents totalling aprox 12Gb.

I have discovered a possible workaround, if you pause all the torrents It seems to check fine.

I am using version 1.00-1 on Linux Mint Elyssa.

PS Is anyone getting an update available window but non available when you go to the website?

[r0ckarong]

I'm getting major problems with the re-check. Majority oof the time the re-chaeck get stuck between 5-15% complete. This varies between single files of approx 1Gb and multi-file torents totalling aprox 12Gb.

I have discovered a possible workaround, if you pause all the torrents It seems to check fine.

I am using version 1.00-1 on Linux Mint Elyssa.

PS Is anyone getting an update available window but non available when you go to the website?

I have no problems loading big torrents either. 2 GB of RAM help. The system has to check huge amounts of data against themselves mathematically from the HDD into RAM and back again. That's quite challenging to the CPU and in the meantime nothing else can get done.

I've asked about that update thing a while ago and it has something to do with their servers. They have that one repo over at some hosting site and then the links here. I believe the popup grabs the info about releases on the other site (where you can get them when it pops up) and then they put the other links on the Download page here once they get to do it so that might be a couple of minutes or a couple of days even. They've already fixed the links in the Download section though I wondered about that too.

[Rakki]

I have discovered a possible workaround, if you pause all the torrents It seems to check fine.

Interesting, I'll test this pause thing if it helps .

[Rakki]

Pause doesn't help with this issue. I examined the folder that contained files for the problematic torrent and file rights were set by me to maximum on earlier phase. I don't know which rights set is enough for Deluge. Maybe rights set was root reason for checking the same torrent always when Deluge was started. Other folders containing torrent files had different rights set.

Original rights set contained all rights and also d letter in the beginning. This was very strange because it stands for directory .
drwxrwxrwx

After that I torrentzipped all files with trrntzip and then set rights again with chmod 755 for all files. Torrentzip namely removes rights from the files and it doesn't set original rights again.

Rights after setting them with chmod.
-rwxr-xr-x

Then I removed original torrent from list and added it again. Now the torrent is not checked every time when Deluge starts .

Edit:
chmod however with 755 gives too much rights and probably chmod 644 gives enough rights for the files that Deluge handles. File owner has rights to read and write, group has right to read and others have right to read.

chmod 644 *

Torrentzip:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/trrntzip