VulcanTourist Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 If a torrent has finished being downloaded and seeding is continuing, what is the effect of Stopping the torrent as opposed to Pausing it for long periods? If such a seeding torrent is stopped, can it be restarted to continue seeding to the configured seeding goal and then Finish normally?I have been pausing some seeding torrents (have too many right now) rather than stop them because I've been afraid I couldn't restart them. Since I suspect that paused seeds still consume network bandwidth, I would like to stop them for a time instead if they be can safely restarted later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 After paused for 3 update cycles, the event=STOPPED message is sent to the tracker.Pausing keeps queue slots used... if that's your concern, STOP instead. Also as you see, because of the way certain things happen, keeping those torrents started is OK except for the fact it's also reducing the active number of connections available to other torrents.Why do you have trouble starting torrents after stopping them? What is the error message? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 I haven't actually ever tried to stop one yet... as I said, I was afraid of the consequences. That's why I asked the question here, to either cure my fear or justify it.So since it's okay to stop and restart them, I definitely want to do it, because I think having all those active torrents and pausing them is also what was causing uTorrent to become a memory hog and eventually use up to 900MB of RAM.So just to be clear, stopping a seeding torrent doesn't zero or reset the seeding ratio for that torrent? It will be able to pick up where it left off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 Correct. Bittorrent and uT function in a "casual" sharing way. You don't need to stay connected the whole time, or even over 1 session to get the data you want. http://dessent.net/btfaq/#what explains some of this.If you're having trouble with RAM usage... are you downloading/uploading > 5Mbit?? Does task manager for instance show utorrent.exe as actually using the RAM or does it just "disappear"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 Yes, uTorrent was actually allocating that much RAM to itself. No, the rate is nowhere near 5 megabits, since I have a residential DSL account and I was only uploading/seeding... the rate never even hits 50 KILObits. I largely solved the problem by disabling ALL the caching options in Advanced Options, but it still likes to climb over time, so I stop and restart uTorrent itself at least once a day. Even pausing some of them seemed to help somewhat; I think I just got too backlogged and was paying a heavy price for it.Earlier today I picked one seed that looked pretty defunct and dared to Stop it, wait, and then restart it; it seemed to resume just fine with the ratio intact, etc., so I went ahead and stopped all the paused ones. As I did that, of course, the maximum upload rates on the remaining ones began to climb, which is a good thing. I can "close out" those torrents faster and delete the space they're taking, and then restart the others.The only thing that concerns me is that the Status of these stopped ones are now reported as "Finished", as if uTorrent thinks that they have reached the seeding goal already; I'm not sure if it will auto-stop them when that goal is eventually reached now. Will it? If so, tip for next release: mark the status of manually stopped seeds as "Stopped", rather than "Finished", and reserve the latter term for those that actually reach the seeding goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 Did you leave the Disk Cache bypass options ON or OFF. Turn them ON. See what happens :/ If thats a problem you're likely running 1) Vista or 2) software which is injecting / looking at the data uT processes and causing RAM leakage like this. This is usually diagnosed from a process explorer logfile.Regarding youe queue/seed goal questions. The goal is set on add for each torrent. You need to change the goal per torrent if your wishes have changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 Is your net.max_halfopen set to 8 or less?Is DHT enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 thelittlefire:Do you mean "Override automatic cache size..."? That is disabled, though originally it was enabled and set to 100MB (IIRC). The rest of the settings:Reduce memory: enabledEnable caching of disk writes: disabledEnable caching of disk reads: disabledDisable Windows caching of disk writes: enabledDisable Windows caching of disk reads: enabledI am using Windows 2000 SP4... not a chance in hell I'll run Vista. I am unclear at this point whether it was changing these settings from the default that reduced its RAM footprint, or whether it was a reduction in the number of active seeds. I did both at about the same time.So which options do you think I should tweak as an experiment? I wasn't clear. I assume the number of active seeds has a bearing? How many should I have active at the time?Switeck:Yes, net.max_halfopen is set to 8, which I'd guess is the default. DHT is also enabled.Right now uTorrent is using 185MB of RAM with these settings, after being "up" for 18 hours and 104M CPU ticks. That is with twelve available seeds. (I had fewer last night but there was a lot of wasted uplink bandwidth so I restarted a few stopped ones.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowatrucker40 Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 I too have been experimenting with the "pause" and "stop" features. I connect using wi-fi and verizon broadband data card as I am a trucker and that is the only means to connect my laptop. Verizon limits me to 5gb/month. I was concerned about bandwith usage allowing my torrents to seed after downloading (Verizon will slow my spd down to 56k if I go over 5gigs). I found that when the download had finished, it continued to seed, however, when I logged out and then went back again, i could no longer seed and had not yet reached the ideal ratio for that download. Not sure what to do at this point, but figure that when I get home, I will be downloading and seeding for the 4 days I am at home from my desktop! I really want to contribute my share of seeding as well.Do you know of a way to restart the seeding again after a torrent has "finished" downloading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted January 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 iowatrucker40:I'm pretty sure that if you simply Force Start a "Finished" torrent it will begin seeding again, regardless of the current seed ratio. I am assuming of course that you still have the data in place and the torrent file still loaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowatrucker40 Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 Yes. I found since leaving the forum that I can just start the file again and it will resume seeding. Thanks for your help. Now if I could just get the r00 files to convert and play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted January 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 BTW, @ Switeck and thelittlefire:I forgot to mention that uTorrent itself isn't the only RAM hog: services.exe - one or more of its threads - uses RAM in proportion to uTorrent and shrinks down to practically nothing within a minute after I terminate uTorrent. I had thought perhaps it was due to disk caching, since IIRC services.exe manages that, but since I attempted to disable the caching I'm not so sure now.Right now that same uTorrent session from yesterday has now risen to 354MB - correction, make that 356MB since I started writing this! - and services.exe is using 208MB. It still grows if I don't restart it every day, and it drags services.exe along for the ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Does disabling DHT, LPD, UPnP, NAT-PMP, and Resolve IPs significantly reduce how much ram uTorrent uses over time?What (hostile?) software is deep-linking into uTorrent's memory space?(Process Explorer DLL list of uTorrent.exe as talked about at bottom of 1st link in my signature.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted January 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 I couldn't even see your signature, because I normally turn things like that OFF on most forums due to the visual eyesores and waste of precious screen real estate!No, I haven't disabled DHT or UPnP, and I'm not familiar with the other features; I had no reason to think that DHT or UPnP incurred huge RAM overhead.I could have sworn I had a copy of SysInternals' PE here somewhere, but can't find it. Just got the latest, so here's the process and DLL list (it looks like it should because I just spent 30+ minutes reformatting it):Process PID CPU Description Company NameSystem Idle Process 0 Interrupts n/a Hardware Interrupts DPCs n/a 0.76 Deferred Procedure Calls System 8 2.27 SMSS.EXE 536 Windows NT Session Manager Microsoft Corporation CSRSS.EXE 556 Client Server Runtime Process Microsoft Corporation WINLOGON.EXE 548 Windows NT Logon Application Microsoft Corporation SERVICES.EXE 608 Services and Controller app Microsoft Corporation svchost.exe 804 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation spoolsv.exe 844 Spooler SubSystem App Microsoft Corporation ACService.exe 872 ArcSoft Connect Service ArcSoft Inc. schedul2.exe 884 Acronis Scheduler 2 Acronis guard.exe 928 AVG Anti-Spyware guard GRISOFT s.r.o. avgamsvr.exe 956 AVG Alert Manager GRISOFT, s.r.o. avgupsvc.exe 984 AVG Update Service GRISOFT, s.r.o. avgemc.exe 1012 AVG E-Mail Scanner GRISOFT, s.r.o. boinc.exe 2084 BOINC client World Community Grid wcg_hpf2_rosett 2788 46.21 World Community Grid client wcg_hpf2_rosett 2784 25.76 World Community Grid client D4.exe 2176 Dimension 4 Thinking Man Software svchost.exe 2224 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation Apache.exe 2244 Apache HTTP Server Apache Software Foundation Apache.exe 2308 Apache HTTP Server Apache Software Foundation FDNSUSVC.exe 2264 TechKnow Professional Services FreeDNSUpdate.e 2276 TechKnow Professional Services GemServ.exe 2412 PowerNow! Daemon Launcher Service Advanced Micro Devices jqs.exe 2440 18.18 Java(TM) Quick Starter Service Sun Microsystems, Inc. LSSrvc.exe 2496 LightScribe Service Hewlett-Packard Company mdm.exe 2632 Machine Debug Manager Microsoft Corporation NBHRegInCDSrv.e 2660 Nero Registry InCD Service Nero AG NMSAccessU.exe 2708 nSvcLog.exe 2740 nSvcLog NVIDIA Corporation nvsvc32.exe 2808 NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, v178.13 NVIDIA Corporation regsvc.exe 2552 Remote Registry Service Microsoft Corporation mstask.exe 2572 Task Scheduler Engine Microsoft Corporation stisvc.exe 2964 0.76 Still Image Devices Monitor Microsoft Corporation TrueImageTrySta 3072 wdService.exe 3184 WinMgmt.exe 3212 Windows Management Instrumentation Microsoft Corporation svchost.exe 3224 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation nSvcAppFlt.exe 3284 app_filter Module nSvcIp.exe 3404 ActiveArmor Firewall IP Service NVIDIA Corporation GBPVRRecordingS 3908 GB-PVR Recording Service WelltonWay CachemanXP.exe 3880 CachemanXP Outertech httpd.exe 1808 Apache HTTP Server Apache Software Foundation httpd.exe 1764 Apache HTTP Server Apache Software Foundation msiexec.exe 4036 Windows® installer Microsoft Corporation LSASS.EXE 620 LSA Executable and Server DLL Microsoft Corporationexplorer.exe 2140 2.27 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation WFWIZ.exe 2600 WinFast Wizard Leadtek Research Inc. avgas.exe 2604 AVG Anti-Spyware GRISOFT s.r.o. D4.exe 2624 Dimension 4 Thinking Man Software WebDrive.exe 2468 rundll32.exe 2692 Run a DLL as an App Microsoft Corporation jusched.exe 2736 Java(TM) Platform SE binary Sun Microsystems, Inc. shwicon2k.exe 2748 Sunkist Alcor Micro, Corp. ACDaemon.exe 2764 0.76 ArcSoft Connect Daemon ArcSoft Inc. ArcCon.ac 2804 ArcSoft Connect Notifier ArcSoft Inc. CTFMON.EXE 2816 Cicero Loader Microsoft Corporation ww.exe 2864 Weather Watcher Singer's Creations pg2.exe 2576 PeerGuardian 2 Methlabs VVCap.exe 2908 VVCap application G Central boinctray.exe 3000 BOINC System Tray for Windows Space Sciences Laboratory hndythng.exe 3104 hdhomerun_manag 3132 HDHomeRun Manager Silicondust Engineering Ltd. ApacheMonitor.e 3124 1.52 Apache HTTP Server Monitor Apache Software Foundation TMMonitor.exe 3196 TMMonitor ArcSoft, Inc. boincmgr.exe 3256 World Community Grid for Windows World Community Grid GBPVRTray.exe 3276 WelltonWay MagicDisc.exe 3308 openwide.exe 3340 Proxomitron.exe 3360 The Proxomitron Groom-A-Zebu (tm) Shove-it.exe 3412 Shove-it, shareware by Phord Phord Software DPH-50U Utility 3976 utorrent.exe 3180 0.76 µTorrent BitTorrent, Inc. explorer.exe 3924 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation explorer.exe 4068 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation firefox.exe 4028 Firefox Mozilla Corporation thunderbird.exe 1644 Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Corporation explorer.exe 4304 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation procexp.exe 4552 0.76 Sysinternals Process Explorer Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.comdmexstart.exe 3056 DRWTSN32.EXE 748 DrWatson Postmortem Debugger Microsoft Corporationpdfcreate3Hook. 3152 PdfCreateHook Application Process: utorrent.exe Pid: 3180Name Description Company Name Version Pathntfslink.dll Hardlink and Junction support for Windows Explorer Michael Elsdoerfer 2.01.0000.0000 C:\PROGRA~1\NTFSLI~1\ntfslink.dllAdvrCntr3.dll AdvrCntr Module Nero AG 3.03.0001.0500 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Nero\Shared\NL3\AdvrCntr3.dllshellexecutehook.dll AVG Anti-Spyware shellexecutehook GRISOFT s.r.o. 7.05.0001.0036 C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\shellexecutehook.dllhndythng.dll C:\Program Files\HandyThing\hndythng.dllNBHShx.dll InCD Nero AG 5.09.0004.0000 C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero8\Nero\Nero8\InCD\NBHShx.dllNBHStr.dll All strings Nero AG 5.09.0004.0000 C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero8\Nero\Nero8\InCD\NBHStr.dllopenwidedll.dll C:\Program Files\OpenWide\openwidedll.dllutorrent.exe µTorrent BitTorrent, Inc. 1.08.0001.12639 C:\Program Files\uTorrent\utorrent.exeACTIVEDS.DLL ADs Router Layer DLL Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.6601 C:\WINNT\system32\ACTIVEDS.DLLADSLDPC.DLL ADs LDAP Provider C DLL Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.6993 C:\WINNT\system32\ADSLDPC.DLLADVAPI32.dll Advanced Windows 32 Base API Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.7038 C:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.dllbrowseui.dll Shell Browser UI Library Microsoft Corporation 6.00.2800.1949 C:\WINNT\system32\browseui.dllCLBCATQ.DLL Microsoft Corporation 2000.02.3529.0000 C:\WINNT\system32\CLBCATQ.DLLCOMCTL32.dll Common Controls Library Microsoft Corporation 5.81.4968.2500 C:\WINNT\system32\COMCTL32.dllcomdlg32.dll Common Dialogs DLL Microsoft Corporation 5.00.3700.6693 C:\WINNT\system32\comdlg32.dllCRYPT32.dll Crypto API32 Microsoft Corporation 5.131.2195.6926 C:\WINNT\system32\CRYPT32.dllCSCDLL.DLL Offline Network Agent Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.6713 C:\WINNT\system32\CSCDLL.DLLcscui.dll Client Side Caching UI Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.6705 C:\WINNT\system32\cscui.dllctype.nls C:\WINNT\system32\ctype.nlsDHCPCSVC.DLL DHCP Client Service Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.7085 C:\WINNT\system32\DHCPCSVC.DLLDNSAPI.DLL DNS Client API DLL Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.7158 C:\WINNT\system32\DNSAPI.DLLGDI32.dll GDI Client DLL Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.7205 C:\WINNT\system32\GDI32.dllICMP.dll ICMP DLL Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2134.0001 C:\WINNT\system32\ICMP.dllIphlpapi.dll IP Helper API Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.7097 C:\WINNT\system32\Iphlpapi.dllKERNEL32.DLL Windows NT BASE API Client DLL Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.7135 C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.DLLlocale.nls C:\WINNT\system32\locale.nlsLZ32.DLL LZ Expand/Compress API DLL Microsoft Corporation 5.00.2195.6611 C:\WINNT\system32\LZ32.DLLMFC80ENU.DLL MFC Language Specific Resources Microsoft Corporation 8.00.50727.0762 C:\WINNT\system32\MFC80ENU.DLLMFC80U.DLL MFCDLL Shared Library - 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Switeck Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Probably something from Nero or AVG anti-spyware stuff is messing with uTorrent.Though there is also the "openwidedll.dll" and "ntfslink.dll" which seem a little odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanTourist Posted January 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 OpenWide is an Explorer extension that alters the standard open-file dialog so that it can be resized and made sticky, etc. It's hardly going to be responsible for RAM-sucking in uTorrent, since it only hooks the file-open dialog. NTFSLink is another shell extension that creates a bit of GUI for managing NTFS hard links and junctions. If the directories relevant to uTorrent were targets of junctions, I might be suspicious.I've been debating dumping the anti-spyware tool and at least some of the parts of Nero, like InCD. I can watch for dramatic uTorrent memory usage improvements if I do. I dread having to start over with a bare OS just to find the cause of the problem.Update, 2009-01-30:I seem to have solved the memory-hog issue with uTorrent: right now it's only consuming 7.4MB after running for over 24 hours, and that's with all the caching options enabled again. That's a reduction of over 100 times from before.The solution seemed to have been removing one specific Explorer shell extension called FileMenu Tools. It may have been causing the trouble all by itself or in conflict with another extension, DMEXBar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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