transmission-daemon on Raspbian

ToniCipriani · 02-29-2016, 09:37 PM

I'm using transmission-daemon in combination with OpenVPN on a Raspberry Pi 2 running Raspbian, and have configured the daemon to start alongside with the OpenVPN service via the up script. Once the connection is up, OpenVPN's IP gets updated in the transmission-daemon config and is restarted.

However, I'm noticing whenever I restart the transmission-daemon, my torrents' queue order goes random in order? Anyone know how I can avoid this? I don't think it's the IP binding script because even if I do a regular daemon restart it does the same thing.

Code:

dpkg -l | grep transmission
ii  transmission-cli               2.84-0.2                   armhf        light                                                                                      weight BitTorrent client (command line programs)
ii  transmission-common            2.84-0.2                   all          light                                                                                      weight BitTorrent client (common files)
ii  transmission-daemon            2.84-0.2                   armhf        light                                                                                      weight BitTorrent client (daemon)

cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.1.17-v7+ (dc4@dc4-XPS13-9333) (gcc version 4.8.3 20140303 (prerelease) (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1+bzr2650 - Linaro GCC 2014.03) ) #838 SMP Tue Feb 9 13:15:09 GMT 2016

BW-userx · 03-02-2016, 08:11 AM

torrents' queue order goes random in order

so you mean they do not stay in the order you'd like to have your torrents downloaded?
if yes,
then that is not a situation that you can actaully control. that is a who ever is on the other end of the line the torrent client is pulling from. in other words, who ever is giving data gets the top of the queue first. it is more of a supply and demand rather then demand and supply order of things.

ToniCipriani · 03-02-2016, 02:00 PM

No, as in the priority order I add the torrents. After you add the torrents, you can move them up and down the queue order within Transmission. I have a list of items I added to the download list, and every time I restart the daemon, that order just goes out of whack. Basically every time daemon restarts, the torrents sorted by queue order goes random.

Although I have a feeling the Transmission guys said this was "by design", which is somewhat ridiculous. I don't ever recall Azureus nor uTorrent shuffling around the orders ever. I might give deluged a try instead.

http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?t=13475

BW-userx · 03-02-2016, 02:07 PM

yeah I quit using transmission a long time ago and switched to deluge myself, though I do not actually worry about queue order, but they do have a better priority setting .. if their is more then one file within the torrent, each files priority can be set separately.

Deluge Queue Settings and (look near bottom where its showing files) priority settings in pic