torrent & multitasking
 

Can someone check if the n900 is capable of downloading a torrent with transmission over wifi and doing some other stuff like browsing, talking over the phone or listing to music in the meantime.

cheers

Re: torrent & multitasking
 

Saw a video of a beta version of a torrent software - seemed to lag the phone quite badly - that of course may have changed as that was over 1 month ago

Re: torrent & multitasking
 

Newer version in extras-devel is much better. qwerty12 what's holding it back?

Re: torrent & multitasking
 

Yes, it can, however there's an issue with Transmission where it sometimes goes unresponsive for whatever reason. I'm not sure if that issue has been resolved yet. Seems to happen at random and we're not sure why.

Re: torrent & multitasking
 

as long as transmission doesn't crash the phone i'm fine ;). are there any torrent clients for the commandline?

Re: torrent & multitasking
 

rtorrent/ctorrent off the top of my head. Don't know if they'll work on the N900 though since Nokia conveniently decided to overlook Asia when releasing the N900.

Re: torrent & multitasking
 

multitasking and transmission go well together if i limit the peer connections to say 10 (i still tend to get good download speeds). haven't tried the version in extras-devel though, but good to hear it's even better.

Re: torrent & multitasking
 

Haven't had chance to try transmission on N900, notice it has many more options than N8x0 version which I had no problems with.

As edgar2 says, each concurrent network connection requires a fair bit of overhead, even on a desktop.

Will be interesting to see how effective reducing the process priority will be, e.g. renice <transmission's PID> 10