ddelella Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 Version: 3.1.2 (26710)OS: Windows Home Server 2011Site: DemonoidI have tried three different torrents now and all start out finding the trackers just fine but they sit at 0% for a while (occasionaly jumping to a few kbs). After a few minutes the status bar says, "Error: Semaphore period timeout has expired". Some of the trackers have switched to inactive.Everything in version 2.X was working just fine. Only version 3.X has caused this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 What internet security software do you have installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddelella Posted February 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 Symantec Endpoint 12.0.122.192It has never been an issue before the upgrade to version 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 Did you remove and re-add the rules for uTorrent in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddelella Posted February 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 Never used uTorrent rules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 It's rules IN endpoint that are likely interfering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddelella Posted February 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 I do not use special rules in EndPoint. The version of EndPoint is Small Business Edition and does not include any built in firewall, only virus and SpyWare protection. I got another error when attempting again this morning, "the supplier user buffer is not valid for the requested operation". Just like the timeout issue the download started downloading just fine but after a minute or so the download dropped to 0kbs and then errored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 What advanced settings have you changed at ANY point in using uTorrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddelella Posted February 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 I was able isolate the issue but it is still software related. I have a software RAID between two of my drives using FlexRaid real-time. The software creates a single pooled drive with parity support. It only seems to malfunction when I attempt to download to that drive. I downloaded to a normal drive and it appears to be holding. Why do I say software then, because I was able to use another bit torrent client last night to download what I needed to the FlexRaid drive without issue. The speed was not as good but it did complete. It could potentially be the real-time configuration I have on the raid. I will attempt to switch it to snapshot mode and see if that solves my end of the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddelella Posted February 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 Perhaps it is not the FlexRaid drive. After about 50% downloading to the standard drive it received the same semaphore error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 It may be the whole hard drive subsystem in your computer, although from the looks of things, you're using software you don't need to in order to generate a raid array (Windows has raid support built in by using dynamic disks) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddelella Posted February 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Whatever the issue is with version 3.X I am not sure it has to do with the software RAID. I wanted to use the built in Windows RAID5 but I need more drives to make it work. I plan to order some and switch to that in the future. For now I have gone back to uTorrent 2.2.1 and it seems to be working just fine. Guess I will just turn off the update feature and stick with what works. According to the people seeding the majority have decided to stick with 2.2.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawz101 Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 I'm getting slow downloads on this build as well. Saving to a RAID1 array. Uses onboard AMD raid controller - not a software raid. Slower than heck on 3.1.2 26710 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nissos Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 I have the same problems as the topic of this thread: Just upgraded from 3.1 to 3.1.2 and now the download does not work at all and uTorrent constantly take up 50-60% or more from the CPU. I just have a laptop with Win 7 (64bit) and download to the internal hardrive. Nothing else connected and with 3.1 the downloads worked fine. I have since installing 3.1.2 started several torrents for download and nothing happens with them. 0.0% progress. And the whole computer is slowed down by uTorrent taking up CPU-power.Tried deactivating the windows cache...options without effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 Have you tried starting fresh?Also, what firewall are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddelella Posted February 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 If by starting fresh you mean an uninstall then new install, yes. I am using the standard Windows Firewall. My antivirus software does not include a built in firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 What antivirus software is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddelella Posted February 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Please read my second post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Symantec endpoint isn't actually an antivirus. It's a firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddelella Posted February 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 It is anti-virus and anti-malware protection for small business. The managed version can include a firewall prevention but I am only using the client which includes the two I listed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
styxdogg Posted September 4, 2012 Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 This is the newest thread i could find with the "Semaphore period timeout has expired" error. It my case, It appears to be a problem with my harddisk.After some annoying searches that didn't give me much help across many forum questions.. I did see that someone stated it could be something with a bad sector on the hard disk. I noticed a 'force recheck' on the torrent would stop on a certain file in the download with the above error. When i tried to copy all the files to another harddrive, windows got hung up on the same file. I excluded that file in the next copy and all others copied fine. I haven't done any further testing at this point, but I would say that is strong evidence of a bad sector on the hard disk. Sounds like basicly, utorrent is timing out while trying to access the file. after i got the good files moved i was able to resume the download in the new location.side note: it was a real hassle to get it to download to start in the new location. even after i changed it under the right click > advanced option, when i hit force recheck it kept checking the old directory, and this time it was just freezing up utorret completely. you dont get the prompt to select location when you add a torrent anymore (apparently) .. so i had to change the default directory in the preferences, and the re-add the torrent. then i could do the force recheck... maybe i should have just hit start. lol. also, i am not sure how, but a 77% complete copy of the troubled file appeared in the new directory as well, at some point. (maybe utorrent moved what it could when i told it to change directory? i guess i am not really sure how that works.. i am pretty sure it wasnt there after i canceled the stalled copy operation in windows.) anyway, it started working after that.EDIT: OOH i see what happened when utorrent was freezing.. it wasnt really from the force recheck i was trying, utorrent got hung up when it was trying to move the files to the new location, getting stuck on the same bad file. i noticed that it had deleted the files in the old location, but only the ones before the bad file in the list.. i had already copied everything but the bad file myself. and it did manage to put part of the bad file in the new location.. but i did have to kill the process to start over. never too much info, right? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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