Transmission is uploading and downloading at about 20 KiB/s when no torrents are listed at all

[Colin Keenan]

Ubuntu 11.10

I have been able to run Transmission at 50 KiB/s max upload speed in the past without any problems, but recently had to reduce the speed to 30 KiB/s. Even at that speed, I was having trouble with VOIP, so lowered it to 20 KiB/s, but I was still having trouble. I checked with System Monitor and even though Transmission said it was uploading at 20 KiB/s, System Monitor showed nearly double that. I closed Transmission and System Monitor showed nearly 0 upload, so it was definitely Transmission causing the problem.

I decided to try pausing all torrents, and Transmission showed 0 upload, but System Monitor still showed close to 20 upload and download.

Finally, I tried deleting all torrents. Transmission shows "0" for "All" torrents and upload/download also shows "0", but System Monitor still shows close to 20 KiB/s for both upload and download, but nearly "0" when transmission is closed.

I have attached a screen shot showing the network history near "0" until I open Transmission, at which point the upload/download jumps to nearly 20 KiB/s even though Transmission is showing no torrents and no upload/download.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: transmission 2.33-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 30 08:29:33 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: transmission
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (15 days ago)

[Colin Keenan (colinkeenan)]

Also, when I first tried to submit the bug report, ubuntu-bug transmission was reporting that transmission was not installed! So, I installed it (but I had already been using it?) from the command line and it acted as if it installed something new. On running transmission, I still had the same problem though.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

I'm closing this bug report as probably fixed.
If you are encountering again this problem, please run in a terminal
ubuntu-bug transmission
to open a new report.
Thanks
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[Colin Keenan (colinkeenan)]

I don't know if it's fixed or not because this problem led me to switch to Vuze. I see no reason to go back to Transmission to find out if it's working properly or not.