general zhou Posted January 4, 2008 Report Posted January 4, 2008 Hi, I have a problem with utorrent not closing properly. I am on a windows xp machine, no antivirus software and only windows firewall. utorrent starts and runs fine, but after I close it the process is still running. I can't end it with process explorer, and this means I can't restart utorrent without restarting the computer. Also, I guess since the process never ends, utorrent forces a recheck every time I start it up. This can take forever on my computer. So if anyone can help me with this problem, or tell me how to make utorrent not recheck the file every time, that would be great. thanks
jewelisheaven Posted January 4, 2008 Report Posted January 4, 2008 Uhm, if you enabled Ctrl-P -> Advanced bt.graceful_shutdown, ut will stay in the process list UNTIL it is finished. With that option turned off uT waits the default 10 seconds before quitting itself. Either option will result in the torrents you WERE RUNNING at the time of the close to recheck themselves upon restart.
ajones81 Posted January 5, 2008 Report Posted January 5, 2008 Either option will result in the torrents you WERE RUNNING at the time of the close to recheck themselves upon restart.That's funny... I thought the whole point of bt.graceful_shutdown was that no torrent would be running when uTorrent finally shut down, and thus it would never need to re-check during next startup?
jewelisheaven Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 Torrents will restart in their previous state on a restart. Torrents which were stopped are still stopped, and those which weren't, aren't.
ajones81 Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 Yes, but bt.graceful_shutdown, if not interfered with, should ensure that no torrent needs to be re-checked on restart, so your statement was a bit off the mark jewel.Anyway, the poster doesn't seem to have responded so maybe his problem's solved. Time to abandon this thread till it's revived, I guess.
jewelisheaven Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 Whether the torrent job is running or not was not the question. The status is the same before and after restarting I say what I mean and mean what I say -- Horton (from Horton Hears a Who)
ajones81 Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 Aah, forget it, no use getting into a tiff over semantics, right? Hmm, a Dr. Seuss fan I see.. BTW, looking forward to Jim Carrey as Horton two months from now.
jewelisheaven Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 First: I concur abandoning thread until email says new reply But it's not semantics ... the graceful shutdown doesn't change the status. It merely makes sure ALL operations are complete before closing; thereby negating the need for a recheck upon restart. In the former case, it's as-if uT magically stops all torrents, closes, and magically re-sets the status If that were the case I wouldn't recommend people who want to STOP torrents prior to close to use a label, multi-file-select, and STOP... and START upon re-open. :/ Just need that right-click menu to also include "stop all torrents" below pause and resume.HORTON IS COMING TO THEATRES!?!?!?! <hug ajones81> That made my weekend.
ajones81 Posted January 6, 2008 Report Posted January 6, 2008 It merely makes sure ALL operations are complete before closing; thereby negating the need for a recheck upon restart.Exactly what I've been trying to say myself! That's why, when you said that "Either option (i.e. bt.graceful_shutdown on or off) will result in the torrents you WERE RUNNING at the time of the close to recheck themselves upon restart", I noted that either option won't cause a recheck, only the latter option (it being off) will/may. Thus the point about semantics, as the word 'either' there didn't really fit.Re. the stop all torrents, have you posted a feature request yet (or it might already be there)?Yup, Horton's coming, and since it's the Ice Age team, I'm really looking forward to it!
general zhou Posted January 6, 2008 Author Report Posted January 6, 2008 sorry for not responding earlier. it turns out graceful.shutdown was disabled. it also turns out that the utorrent process did shut down at least once, but it was about an hour or two after i closed the program. anyways, i enabled graceful.shutdown, hopefully that will work.update: looks like changing the graceful shutdown to true actually closes utorrent faster, and restarting utorrent doesnt force a recheck anymore. thanks everybody.update 2: nevermind, i closed it again and the process is still running. the first time i closed it there was one torrent running, this time there were 3 if that makes any difference.
ajones81 Posted January 7, 2008 Report Posted January 7, 2008 How long does it keep running? With graceful shutdown enabled, it will take time to complete all its pending work and only then exit.Were the 3 torrents all active, or was any of them facing a tracker error etc.?Is uTorrent hanging or becoming unresponsive in any way before you try to close it? Also, which version of uTorrent are you using?Can you post a HijackThis log here?
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