Comment 1 for bug 701753

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

There are a couple of possible reasons for this that I can think of. The primary one is that Linux's NTFS drivers do not play particularly well with p2p, as described at <http://wiki.fon.com/wiki/Fonera_Troubleshooting#Why_are_NTFS_disk_slow_with_the_Fonera>. So my first question would be if the problems go away if you stop using NTFS partitions with Transmission.

A second possibility is that Transmission added a memory cache in 2.10 to reduce overall disk IO. 10.04's repositories are still on 2.0x, but if you're feeling adventurous you can give 2.1x a try from the ppas at https://edge.launchpad.net/~transmissionbt/+archive/ppa

If you give either of these suggestions a try, please let me know via the ticket. Thanks!