rom Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 I ran 1.2 for the first time and noticed poor speed, so I wanted to close it and try another program. So, I closed the window, uTorrent asked me if I really wanted to exit, I confirmed, the window closed, but uTorrent's process remained running. And I couldn't kill it by Task Manager or SysInternals Process Explorer. On consequent runs, I was able to close it with less problems (but the process remained running too long after the window closed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 You need to give it time to write data to disk, close file handles, close connections, and send a STOP message to all trackers it was connected to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rom Posted November 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 I see. It makes sense. I guess the latter is the most time consuming.The bug then is that UI should reflect what the program is doing. It shouldn't close until the process is ready to terminate. At the very least, it should list items you listed and say that it may take several minutes. An additional improvement would be to show some kind progress information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 ahah yeah there is a delay but it is 2-3 seconds not minutes i dunno what u're doing maybe a bug in ur system.. try reinstalling Windows - it might helpor perhaps u have too many torrents in ur list (i have 15 and exits in 2 seconds) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rom Posted November 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 I will not reinstall Windows every time a new program demonstrates a problem. I only installed Windows (XP Pro SP2) last May. And I had only one torrent in the list. Since the problem has been only with uTorrent, I suggest that the developer pay attention to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 Maybe, but it might just as easily be an isolated case (with your computer). For me -- and apparently, a lot of other people -- µTorrent shuts down very quickly (almost instantly here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rom Posted November 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 Maybe so, but how many people look at the process list when they shut down an app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 Is your internet slow (ping-wise) or overloaded? Is the tracker on the torrent down? These factors can influence how long it takes for the process to actually exit.edit: didn't read, curse you ultima Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 rom had only one torrent loaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rom Posted November 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 I understand, Firon. I will pay attention to this in the future. But probably the next time I will try uTorrent will be when it implements NAT traversing. I am connected to the Internet via a router, and I suspect that lack of this feature was the reason for very low speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 Are you not able to forward ports on your router? Or at the very least be able to use UPnP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rom Posted November 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 No, I am not as I live in a place where I don't have access to the router. And since the other BT client I am using seems to be able to handle things by itself, why would I want to configure the router even if I could? Also, this other client seems to be friendlier to my hard drive (it uses some caching mechanism) than uTorrent was (based on noise coming from the drive). By the way, I think that this explains why uTorrent uses less memory -- it probably writes to disk more often, and the other client caches more in RAM. I prefer the latter. Or maybe uTorrent can also be configured to cache more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 It can be. Under Advanced Options, set diskio.write_queue_size to some large number, like... 32768 (which is 32MB). The default is -1, which allows µTorrent to automatically set a cache size for you.Your other client probably had NAT traversal, which allows it to get through the router without you having to manually setting a port (or something like that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 Hmmm...NAT transversal sounds like a good idea. Isnt NAT transversal the same thing as UPnP though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 not to sound picky, but it's NAT traversal, not transversal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 Er, yeah I meant that (was just reading the Wikipedia page too xP) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animorc Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 I just thought of bringing this up again, since utorrent.exe was left open for 15 minutes after I closed it.I made some screenshots in ProcessExplorer that I have no idea whatsoever if they are useful.Threads:!CreateThread+0x38 Stack:ntdll.dll!RtlConvertUiListToApiList+0x276 Stack: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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