µTorrent gets stuck updating tracker

[3r1c]

Well Microsoft removed the half-open limits in windows in vista sp2 and windows 7.

And this bug is half-open related.

Maybe whatever MS did to remove the limit, means that uTorrent's own limit cannot calculate it properly now.

But I did have this problem on vista sp1 (which I think still has the windows half-open limit) before I upgraded to windows 7 and it started happening right after a uTorrent update not a windows update.

[Snowknight26]

Any updates on this issue?

[anonymous]

Same problem here. Windows Server 2003 x32 SP2, using many https trackers. Problem appears randomly, sometimes after a day running.

[Switeck]

Does Help, Show Statistics show any/many half open connections when uTorrent gets "stuck"?

[Ghis1964]

I'm still on that thing yeah.

Recommended setting sounds to me like default settings. Isn't it? yes.... so that solution has been long gone and looks to me like a kind of scape goat or a waste of time just mentioning it. Yeah I know there's some young devils beginners that would mess with those setting (as I did back when), its been tried, its been proven useless to modify; the gain is what... .00001%.

As for sequential, what is that? w--king the client;) Now I can't see the pleasure anyone would have at stopping... starting... stopping... starting on and on any torrent. Push play, only once is enough, then when done its done. Cooking a rib-steak sequentially does also destroys a good piece of meat.

As I mention earlier last week, I don't believe it is a "µTorrent" bug. (yeah I also said and thought it was a windows bug, which now I can see is not). And I have tried the last five version (no not all at once) I did each install "clean". Clean means deleting each key, folder and all with even the firewall rules.(yeah I had the time). Even more, Deluge started to do the same, as a tracker would not reply, it changed tracker (cause deluge uses one tracker at atime it seems, so it switch its primary tracker when needed, but I don't know that for sure, it looks as if it switches)

The problem "looks to me" as a "region" and/or "ISP" problem. If not, then, why utorrent is getting replies on one tracker while non with an other? If it were a client bug, it would either get, none at all, or, all ok.

Maybe people who have proxies are fine. I don't have those, got no bread to waste on that.

Also, those non-working/now-working, (this looks like sequence hey) , trackers recently had legal and/or hackers issues. So I'm starting to think that we're scavenging the wrong bone as this lingers on.

Got to eat now, my steak is getting cold;)

Peace

[Maggot666PL]

I'm getting more and more confident about the cause of the problem - another symptom: when a SSL-tracker goes down, as I mentioned before (it just happened again, I'm now un-clogging uT), half-open connections just keep stacking up till they reach the set limit. It does NOT happen with non-encrypted trackers.

[Switeck]

Enable DEBUG column in the torrents window (top window)...the 1st number is how many half open connections are active for each particular torrent, the 2nd number is how many additional upload slots are allowed past normal max, and the 3rd number is max (theoretically) allowed upload slots for that torrent based on upload speed max and conditions.

[Chouonsoku]

I've been noticing similar problems to others on here. I'm running uTorrent 1.8.4 and all of my trackers are getting stuck on "Updating" most of the time. The trackers are all SSL encrypted. The net.max_halfopen workaround worked for me.

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[Ghis1964]

The net.max_halfopen... thx Chouonsoku, I don't know what's the use to have a maximum just half open or what that fancy therm means, but it work for here also.

Now I can delete those time-off trackers finally again;)

Peace

[anonymous]

what's exactly the net.max_halfopen workaround? set it to 0 or 4?

[Ghis1964]

"what's exactly the net.max_halfopen workaround? set it to 0 or 4?"

yeah.... cause for now I don't yet see what it does or if this does anything, at all.

default is 8 on µT 1.8.4, and I've tried 0, and also 100. But, where does the action take place? I mean, where is the big earthquake?

[Chouonsoku]

It's just a workaround from earlier in the thread. I set it to 64 for mine and trackers started updating pretty soon after that.

[3r1c]

Ghis1964, if you have trackers that are always working, and some that are never working, then yeah those trackers are probably down. This is nothing to do with the problems we are having here.

Its not a tracker/isp problem, and the trackers that I am using are private trackers which are accessible by browser, and work after changing the half-open setting.

Changing a setting on my PC that magically makes the problem go away pretty much rules out that the problem is with the tracker or ISP.

From reading so far everyone in here has the following.

1. Trackers stop updating after uTorrent has been running a while.

2. Using at least some SSL trackers.

3. Have a lot of half-open connections in Help/Show Statistics.

4. Increasing net.max_halfopen immediately makes all frozen trackers active again (although given enough time, it will eventually reach whatever you increased it to, so not a permanent solution).

[Chouonsoku]

I've also noticed that uTorrent rarely closes anymore when I tell it to. The process is usually there after exiting, and I have to go in and end the process manually before I can run the program again or else the processes just build up.

[Ghis1964]

same here, I thought this issue was over,,, until this morning. µT asked for update and installed as usual. Again, the tray icon wouldn't appear. As I keep task manager always open and a must with vista's unresponsiveness, I shut µT down. The only pain left is to wait for µT to re-check all its dl after re-starting it. This is getting really old stuff now. Patience is a blessing for those who have it. I have it, but not always on a 24/7 basis;)

Now, maybe related or not, does anybody went to windows's installed program list? I don't often go, by having Revo's un-installer to take care of un-installing apps, but I went there after some Minefield trouble-shootings and saw µT "double" installed. After un-installing one the other followed leaving an icon that as no figure on it, and came back as a "one-only" installed apps after re-installing. From here, I'll just wait again to see if everything goes back to normal, and from time to time giving a feed-back hoping to help anyone help me back.

Peace

[Richard Choi]

Does anyone have an example tracker or torrent that exhibits this behavior? I am having trouble finding a https tracker to test. Thanks

[tims0n]

waffles.fm for example.

[DreadWingKnight]

He doesn't have access for that, got an alternative?

[Maggot666PL]

It'll be tough, since many of those trackers are private and invitation only.

I've got some observations from the past days:

- When a tracker goes offline (returns timeout responses and "A connnection couldn't be established" ones), the half-open connections seen in About->Stats keep climbing.

- When I had just one such torrent started it climbed to about 30 (more like "by 30" -> the lowest point was at about 20-something, highest - a bit over 50), then dropped rapidly (just like it was maxing out some sort of a limit). Cycle was repeating itself.

- With more torrents I was observing slow, but constant growth (before the program's reset it got to around 1700 half-open connections). Not once I've seen a significant drop, but I also haven't go enough time to see if it would reach a state of equilibrium.

- In the debug column for the "broken" tracker one connections pops up while announcing, then immediately vanishes. The result is uT showing 0|0|* for all of them, all the time.

- The half-opens from debug columns often do not add up to the count from the "Stats" screen.

Hope it helps at least a bit.

[Firon]

I got Richard an HTTPS tracker to test with, so he'll get right on reproducing and fixing this bug.

[-=SparX=-]

Hello folks, I too have this issue in xpsp3. I cant be sure when i first noticed the problem but i think 182 was fine and has only started since i updated to 183 and later 184. I reverted back to 182 about an hour ago but after reading this thread i wonder if that will help...

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O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [uTorrent] "C:\Program Files\uTorrent\utorrent.exe"
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTFMON.EXE (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTFMON.EXE (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-18\..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTFMON.EXE (User 'SYSTEM')
O4 - HKUS\.DEFAULT\..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTFMON.EXE (User 'Default user')
O8 - Extra context menu item: Download all links with IDM - C:\Program Files\Internet Download Manager\IEGetAll.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Download FLV video content with IDM - C:\Program Files\Internet Download Manager\IEGetVL.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Download with IDM - C:\Program Files\Internet Download Manager\IEExt.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/V5Controls/en/x86/client/wuweb_site.cab?1236496776906
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - http://fpdownload2.macromedia.com/get/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{6CD7F182-1EA0-4685-895A-D7EFB9341DB2}: NameServer = 202.27.158.40,202.27.156.72
O23 - Service: cFosSpeed System Service (cFosSpeedS) - cFos Software GmbH - C:\Program Files\cFosSpeed\spd.exe
O23 - Service: Eset HTTP Server (EhttpSrv) - ESET - C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\EHttpSrv.exe
O23 - Service: Eset Service (ekrn) - ESET - C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\ekrn.exe
O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
O23 - Service: O&O Defrag - O&O Software GmbH - C:\WINDOWS\system32\oodag.exe

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End of file - 5992 bytes

and...

Process    PID    CPU    Description    Company Name
System Idle Process    0    94.78        
 Interrupts    n/a    0.75    Hardware Interrupts    
 DPCs    n/a        Deferred Procedure Calls    
 System    4            
  smss.exe    968        Windows NT Session Manager    Microsoft Corporation
   csrss.exe    1056    0.75    Client Server Runtime Process    Microsoft Corporation
   winlogon.exe    1080        Windows NT Logon Application    Microsoft Corporation
    services.exe    1140    0.75    Services and Controller app    Microsoft Corporation
     svchost.exe    1324        Generic Host Process for Win32 Services    Microsoft Corporation
     svchost.exe    1412        Generic Host Process for Win32 Services    Microsoft Corporation
     svchost.exe    1532        Generic Host Process for Win32 Services    Microsoft Corporation
     svchost.exe    1596        Generic Host Process for Win32 Services    Microsoft Corporation
     svchost.exe    1692        Generic Host Process for Win32 Services    Microsoft Corporation
     spoolsv.exe    1892        Spooler SubSystem App    Microsoft Corporation
     svchost.exe    1984        Generic Host Process for Win32 Services    Microsoft Corporation
     spd.exe    2016        cFosSpeed Service    cFos Software GmbH
     ekrn.exe    192        Eset Service    ESET
     jqs.exe    288        Java(TM) Quick Starter Service    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
     oodag.exe    324        O&O Defrag Agent (Win32)    O&O Software GmbH
     alg.exe    1652        Application Layer Gateway Service    Microsoft Corporation
     svchost.exe    2184        Generic Host Process for Win32 Services    Microsoft Corporation
    lsass.exe    1152        LSA Shell (Export Version)    Microsoft Corporation
    rdpclip.exe    512        RDP Clip Monitor    Microsoft Corporation
   csrss.exe    1464        Client Server Runtime Process    Microsoft Corporation
   winlogon.exe    1492        Windows NT Logon Application    Microsoft Corporation
    logon.scr    888        Logon Screen Saver    Microsoft Corporation
explorer.exe    748        Windows Explorer    Microsoft Corporation
 RTHDCPL.exe    2208        Realtek HD Audio Control Panel    Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
  ALCFDRTM.EXE    4008        ALCFDRTM    Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
 egui.exe    2224        Eset GUI    ESET
 oodtray.exe    2456        O&O Defrag TrayIcon (Win32)    O&O Software GmbH
 boinctray.exe    2496        BOINC System Tray for Windows    Space Sciences Laboratory
 jusched.exe    2508        Java(TM) Platform SE binary    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 ctfmon.exe    2536        CTF Loader    Microsoft Corporation
 daemon.exe    2560        Virtual DAEMON Manager    DT Soft Ltd.
 IDMan.exe    2584        Internet Download Manager (IDM)    Tonec Inc.
 opera.exe    2820        Opera Internet Browser    Opera Software
 utorrent.exe    2992    1.49    µTorrent    BitTorrent, Inc.
 OUTLOOK.EXE    2596        Microsoft Office Outlook    Microsoft Corporation
 procexp.exe    3492    1.49    Sysinternals Process Explorer    Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
cfosspeed.exe    2368        cFosSpeed Window    cFos Software GmbH

Process: utorrent.exe Pid: 2992

Name    Description    Company Name    Version
ACTIVEDS.dll    ADs Router Layer DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
adsldpc.dll    ADs LDAP Provider C DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
ADVAPI32.dll    Advanced Windows 32 Base API    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5755
ATL.DLL    ATL Module for Windows XP (Unicode)    Microsoft Corporation    3.5.2284.2
Cabinet.dll    Microsoft® Cabinet File API    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
CLBCATQ.DLL        Microsoft Corporation    2001.12.4414.700
COMCTL32.dll    User Experience Controls Library    Microsoft Corporation    6.0.2900.5512
comdlg32.dll    Common Dialogs DLL    Microsoft Corporation    6.0.2900.5512
COMRes.dll        Microsoft Corporation    2001.12.4414.700
credui.dll    Credential Manager User Interface    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
CRYPT32.dll    Crypto API32    Microsoft Corporation    5.131.2600.5512
cryptdll.dll    Cryptography Manager    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
cryptnet.dll    Crypto Network Related API    Microsoft Corporation    5.131.2600.5512
ctype.nls            
DnsApi.dll    DNS Client API DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5625
dot3api.dll    802.3 Autoconfiguration API    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
dot3dlg.dll    802.3 UI Helper    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
dssenh.dll    Microsoft Enhanced DSS and Diffie-Hellman Cryptographic Provider    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5507
eappcfg.dll    Eap Peer Config    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
eappprxy.dll    Microsoft EAPHost Peer Client DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
GDI32.dll    GDI Client DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5698
hnetcfg.dll    Home Networking Configuration Manager    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
idmmbc.dll    Internet Download Manager LSP dll    Tonec Inc.    5.15.4.0
iertutil.dll    Run time utility for Internet Explorer    Microsoft Corporation    8.0.6001.18806
IMAGEHLP.dll    Windows NT Image Helper    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
IMM32.DLL    Windows XP IMM32 API Client DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
index.dat            
index.dat            
index.dat            
Iphlpapi.dll    IP Helper API    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
kernel32.dll    Windows NT BASE API Client DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5781
locale.nls            
MPRAPI.dll    Windows NT MP Router Administration DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
MSASN1.dll    ASN.1 Runtime APIs    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
MSCTF.dll    MSCTF Server DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
msctfime.ime    Microsoft Text Frame Work Service IME    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
msv1_0.dll    Microsoft Authentication Package v1.0    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5834
MSVCP60.dll    Microsoft (R) C++ Runtime Library    Microsoft Corporation    6.2.3104.0
msvcrt.dll    Windows NT CRT DLL    Microsoft Corporation    7.0.2600.5512
mswsock.dll    Microsoft Windows Sockets 2.0 Service Provider    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5625
netapi32.dll    Net Win32 API DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5694
NETSHELL.dll    Network Connections Shell    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
Normaliz.dll    Unicode Normalization DLL    Microsoft Corporation    6.0.5441.0
ntdll.dll    NT Layer DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5755
ole32.dll    Microsoft OLE for Windows    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
oleaut32.dll        Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
OneX.DLL    IEEE 802.1X supplicant library    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
PSAPI.DLL    Process Status Helper    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
rasadhlp.dll    Remote Access AutoDial Helper    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
RASAPI32.dll    Remote Access API    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
rasman.dll    Remote Access Connection Manager    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
rdpsnd.dll    Terminal Server MultiMedia Driver    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
RPCRT4.dll    Remote Procedure Call Runtime    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5795
rsaenh.dll    Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5507
rtutils.dll    Routing Utilities    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
SAMLIB.dll    SAM Library DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
schannel.dll    TLS / SSL Security Provider    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5834
Secur32.dll    Security Support Provider Interface    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5834
sensapi.dll    SENS Connectivity API DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
SETUPAPI.dll    Windows Setup API    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
SHELL32.dll    Windows Shell Common Dll    Microsoft Corporation    6.0.2900.5622
shfolder.dll    Shell Folder Service    Microsoft Corporation    6.0.2900.5512
SHLWAPI.dll    Shell Light-weight Utility Library    Microsoft Corporation    6.0.2900.5512
sortkey.nls            
sorttbls.nls            
SXS.DLL    Fusion 2.5    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
TAPI32.dll    Microsoft® Windows(TM) Telephony API Client DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
unicode.nls            
urlmon.dll    OLE32 Extensions for Win32    Microsoft Corporation    8.0.6001.18806
USER32.dll    Windows XP USER API Client DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
USERENV.dll    Userenv    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
utorrent.exe    µTorrent    BitTorrent, Inc.    1.8.2.14458
uxtheme.dll    Microsoft UxTheme Library    Microsoft Corporation    6.0.2900.5512
VERSION.dll    Version Checking and File Installation Libraries    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
WINHTTP.dll    Windows HTTP Services    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5727
wininet.dll    Internet Extensions for Win32    Microsoft Corporation    8.0.6001.18806
WINMM.dll    MCI API DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
winrnr.dll    LDAP RnR Provider DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
WINSTA.dll    Winstation Library    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
wintrust.dll    Microsoft Trust Verification APIs    Microsoft Corporation    5.131.2600.5512
WLDAP32.dll    Win32 LDAP API DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
WS2_32.dll    Windows Socket 2.0 32-Bit DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
WS2HELP.dll    Windows Socket 2.0 Helper for Windows NT    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
wshtcpip.dll    Windows Sockets Helper DLL    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
WTSAPI32.dll    Windows Terminal Server SDK APIs    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512
xpsp2res.dll    Service Pack 2 Messages    Microsoft Corporation    5.1.2600.5512

hope that is helpful

edit,

Hello again, I am happy to say that reverting to 1.8.2 and using the 3r1c "workaround" has fixed the issues for myself... not a scientific conclusion perhaps but i am seeding without problems.

Hope the problem gets sorted soon.

cheers.

[Chouonsoku]

Any progress on this?

[Richard Choi]

I am trying to reproduce the issue. Can we definitively say that it occurs on 1.8.4 XP SP3 if you just run a lot of torrents from HTTPS trackers?

[Maggot666PL]

A lot of torrents and a low (default 8 or similar) net.max.halfopen. Also there is a problem with offline (time-outing rather than 404) https trackers (as I wrote few times already).

[3r1c]

I believe I have found another cause.

It happens (at least more often) if the connection to the https tracker fails or times out.

Yesterday my ISP was having problems, alot of packet loss, and usually had to retry a few times to use any website, and the stuck half-open connections in uTorrent shot up rapidly.

uTorrent now shows 0 TCP connecting and 466 half-open and it never drops below that.