Transmission on a R-pi3 stops responding on an Asus RT-AC66U

[benjaminn]

Hi,
Whenever I try to add more than a torrent at the same time (or a very large file) to Transmission, installed on a R-pi3 that's wired to an Asus RT-AC66U, transmission just stops responding.
This also happened when transmission was installed on the RT-AC66U through Optware/Entware (don't remember wich one, was some time ago) using Asuswrt-Merlin firmware, so i guess the problem is not on the R-pi3 side.
When this happens and I try to restart the R-pi3 it takes a very long time because the shutdown process can't stop Transmission so i usually have to restart it by disconnecting the power cable.
The downloads are stored on a HDD plugged-in to the router wich is formatted as NTFS so i can acces it from my windows computer.
I've tried 3 different HDD with the same outcome.
Please can anyone help me resolve this problem?
Thank you in advance.

 

[sfx2000]

Maybe some more specific - I'm not going to assume you're on WiFi with the Pi3, but rather cabled up.

The WiFi on the Pi3 is a bit iffy, and it's much better to use ethernet or a 3rd party USB WiFi dongle rather than the onboard wifi.

With the Pi3 - quality power is extremely important - the "official" power supply does work, and I've seen the MCMElectronics 2.4A adapter work - most cellphone chargers will run low on voltage on a heavy load, and this will crash the Pi (and sometimes eat the card).

So also assuming that you're doing a SMB mount from the USB drive attached to the Asus, correct?

With Transmission - might consider max global connections to around 50, if things are stable, then bump it up - same with max connections for new transfers - start around 20 and then slowly find the limit there.

Something to consider - doing a simple SAMBA server set up on the Pi3, and run the disk from the Pi itself (not bus powered however). I can point you to a simple samba setup on one of the other sub-forums if this is interesting for you.

 

[benjaminn]

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Maybe some more specific - I'm not going to assume you're on WiFi with the Pi3, but rather cabled up.

The WiFi on the Pi3 is a bit iffy, and it's much better to use ethernet or a 3rd party USB WiFi dongle rather than the onboard wifi.

With the Pi3 - quality power is extremely important - the "official" power supply does work, and I've seen the MCMElectronics 2.4A adapter work - most cellphone chargers will run low on voltage on a heavy load, and this will crash the Pi (and sometimes eat the card).

So also assuming that you're doing a SMB mount from the USB drive attached to the Asus, correct?

With Transmission - might consider max global connections to around 50, if things are stable, then bump it up - same with max connections for new transfers - start around 20 and then slowly find the limit there.

Something to consider - doing a simple SAMBA server set up on the Pi3, and run the disk from the Pi itself (not bus powered however). I can point you to a simple samba setup on one of the other sub-forums if this is interesting for you.

Thanks for your quick reply, yes, the r-pi is wired to the router, not using WiFi.
The power suply is the official one, so i don't think power is the issue, as a matter of fact even while transmission is stalled, kodi keeps working fine, although if playing a movie from the HDD it doesn't play smooth.
I used to SMB mount a while back, now I mount the transmission folder by adding this line to the fstab file: "//192.168.1.1/MyBook/Transmission /media/transmission cifs credentials=/etc/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,nofail,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 0" but transmission stalls either way.
Maybe the problem is transmission config, i had this:
"peer-limit-global": 160,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 30,
I've already changed it as you advised, but i don't think that's the problem either because it worked the same way with the preconfigured settings.

thank you very much.

 

[sfx2000]

Thanks for your quick reply, yes, the r-pi is wired to the router, not using WiFi.
The power suply is the official one, so i don't think power is the issue, as a matter of fact even while transmission is stalled, kodi keeps working fine, although if playing a movie from the HDD it doesn't play smooth.

Are you trying to run Kodi and Transmission at the same time?

Also - Raspbian, OpenELEC, or???

have you noticed the rainbow square of death (voltage) or the red square (overheating)?

 

[benjaminn]

Are you trying to run Kodi and Transmission at the same time?

Also - Raspbian, OpenELEC, or???

have you noticed the rainbow square of death (voltage) or the red square (overheating)?

Yes, I'm running both at the same time and I've never seen those squares.
I use OSMC and transmission is included as part of it. It runs fine all the time except when stated.
I previously had raspbian installed on the R-pi3, and Kodi and transmission installed on top of it, and the same thing happened.

 

[sfx2000]

What happens if you use local storage on the PI - same thing?

32GB thumb drives are cheap these days...

 

[benjaminn]

What happens if you use local storage on the PI - same thing?

32GB thumb drives are cheap these days...

Haven't tried that, but the HDD is 3TB!