aliene Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Hi all...I've been having some trouble while torrenting. Once a torrent starts, irregardless of the down/upload speeds, number of torrents going at once and the size of the files being downloaded, my computer starts to "hang" and I am unable to launch any application or switch windows etc.Attempts to being up the task manager take approximately 5-8 mins to succeed. So basicially, I guess all the resources are being used up. I've read on the boards and FAQ that the firewall and antivirus sometimes cause the problem, but I didn't see the ones that I'm using being listed. I'm currently using spybot, zonealarm and CA e-trust.Does anyone have any idea what I can do to remedy this situation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Try Ultima's Troubleshooting Guide?:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992This post mentions CA as a problem:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=31466I also know from the innumerable posts on the subject that Zone Alarm is just plain buggy and has problems with µTorrent...probably due to µTorrent's many connections at once plus connection types (TCP, UDP, multicast, UPnP...) plus amount of bandwidth used versus total available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliene Posted October 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Thanks for the links. I'm not sure if it's CA since I'm using an older version but will check it out. In this case, I suppose one way to test is to temporarily disable zonealarm?I'm not sure if my version of the CA AV software comes with firewall so I'll check and post results here . Hope it works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Disabling Zone Alarm only makes it turn off parts of itself, many if not most of its DLLs remain in your computer's ram...still running and potentially causing problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliene Posted October 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Ah, so it's probably more conclusive if it's properly uninstalled first to eliminate or pin-point it as a source of the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 It would certainly be nice to know which of the 2 is causing the problem/s....My money is on Zone Alarm being the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliene Posted October 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 Well, that was quickly fixed! No cookies for making the right guess but uninstalling zone alarm fixed it XD.Well, no cookies but many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 31, 2007 Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 If only Zone Alarm makers could communicate with us what the problem is, then maybe Zone Alarm and µTorrent could peacefully coexist on more computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverwild Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Just a precision on ZoneAlarm. People should be checking their version of ZoneAlarm. The latest 7.0.462.000 which was released on November 20, 2007 now works great with uTorrent. No CPU hogging or sluggishness. Since I've updated from 7.0.337.000 everything was fine. There may be a problem with 7.0.337.000 that keeps saying it is the latest version and so never updates to the new ones.People who do not have the latest version should download it manually but going to http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/support/zasc/cfu.jsp?dc=78lts&ctry=CA〈=en&lid=db_updatesand then scolling down to the bottom of the page to the "Update Now" section and select their product type to reach the latest download link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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