TeHashX
Very Senior Member
Your kernel is just a little bit older than one on rt-ac66u
Maybe @ryzhov_al or @RMerlin should help us
[TUTORIAL] Native Transmission on asuswrt routers through optware
- Thread starter TeHashX
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Your kernel is just a little bit older than one on rt-ac66u
ok thank u. i wait their help
Hothersale
Occasional Visitor
Hi TeHashX,
I'm going to get rid of Download Master soon and install Transmission on a new flash drive, but I can't decide if I should use Entware or Optware. Which would you recommend? I use an RT-N66U with Asuswrt-Merlin. Thanks!
I'm going to get rid of Download Master soon and install Transmission on a new flash drive, but I can't decide if I should use Entware or Optware. Which would you recommend? I use an RT-N66U with Asuswrt-Merlin. Thanks!
TeHashX
Very Senior Member
Entware...
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Thanks to TeHashX, ryzhov_al
it works flawlessly on DSL-N55U latest stock firmware with WD passport 500GB NTFS
i just add this rules http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=8715
so i do not need enter this on every reboot
it works flawlessly on DSL-N55U latest stock firmware with WD passport 500GB NTFS
i just add this rules http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=8715
Code:
nvram set apps_dl_share=1
nvram set apps_dl_share_port_from=51413
nvram set apps_dl_share_port_to=51414
nvram commitso i do not need enter this on every reboot
Code:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 51413 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --destination-port 51413 -j ACCEPT
frankzotynia10
New Around Here
I have a question. I got everything setup and running correctly on my ac68u. What i can't seem to figure out is for some reason my mac cannot access the default transmission download folder at all. I can access it on my PC but the path is a little wonky. it uses something like This This PC\RT-AC68R. can anyone point me in the right direction? i'm still pretty new to linux.
TeHashX
Very Senior Member
frankzotynia10
New Around Here
that will connect but it only shows asusware.arm20 and download2. no transmission folder.
TeHashX
Very Senior Member
Go to http://192.168.1.1/Advanced_AiDisk_NFS.asp and add path to your transmission folder.
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TeHashX
Very Senior Member
Creating swap file
SWAP FILE
If transmission crashes sometimes "without reason", most probably router goes out of memory and this can be fixed by creating a swap partition but it's a little bit to complicated for most users and we will create a swap file instead, 256MB is more than enough:
• cd /opt
• dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=262144
• mkswap swapfile
• chmod 0600 swapfile
• swapon swapfile
To enable swap file when router booting, add this lines to /jffs/scripts/post-mount script
To unmount add this lines to /jffs/scripts/services-stop script
SWAP FILE
If transmission crashes sometimes "without reason", most probably router goes out of memory and this can be fixed by creating a swap partition but it's a little bit to complicated for most users and we will create a swap file instead, 256MB is more than enough:
• cd /opt
• dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=262144
• mkswap swapfile
• chmod 0600 swapfile
• swapon swapfile
To enable swap file when router booting, add this lines to /jffs/scripts/post-mount script
Code:
#!/bin/sh
swapon /opt/swapfile
Code:
#!/bin/sh
swapoff /opt/swapfile
Code:
chmod a+rx /jffs/scripts/post-mount
chmod a+rx /jffs/scripts/services-stop
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I just installed Transmission on my ASUS DSL-N55U, but I have a problem.
If I load any torrent file, suddently transmission-daemon stops and I get kicked off from web page and/or Transmission Remote GUI.
Any ideas? I cannot try Entware because my router cannot run asuswrt-merlin...
If I load any torrent file, suddently transmission-daemon stops and I get kicked off from web page and/or Transmission Remote GUI.
Any ideas? I cannot try Entware because my router cannot run asuswrt-merlin...
I wondered if anyone could help me.
I recently flashed 3.0.0.4.374.40 on my RT-N16 after migrating from Tomato-Shibby builds. I read that Merlins firmware gave better performance.
My aim is to set up Transmission instead of using download master because I read it is suppose to use far less resources and should be more stable. Sadly for me, the built-in Asus client seems to work better. But I know the reasoning behind the recommendation and I used this guide to install. (thanks)! I don't want to give up yet!
Anyway, I am having a bunch of problems, first my router was rebooting itself with high cpu usage (I think) when downloading a single torrent- I checked in top.
Then a moment a go my router forgot its internet connection settings and I had to re-enter them for it to connect to my modem.
And now after a few mins of downloading, instead of rebooting the process seems to just hang, I can't connect via web browser or via remote gui and cpu usage goes down to next to nothing.
I can force close and start the daemon but the same happens over again in a cycle. If I leave it 10 mins, it starts to work again, but at a very low transfer rate.
Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this? I just want to get stable.
I already made a 500mb swap file that doesn't seem to help. (Does it matter the swap file being on the same disk as the torrent download destination)?
I am using the default settings posted here, so total number of connections shouldn't be the problem?
My internet connection is 60/20 fibre.
My total aim is to use the media server and samba server too, is this asking too much of my RT-N16?
Thanks!
I recently flashed 3.0.0.4.374.40 on my RT-N16 after migrating from Tomato-Shibby builds. I read that Merlins firmware gave better performance.
My aim is to set up Transmission instead of using download master because I read it is suppose to use far less resources and should be more stable. Sadly for me, the built-in Asus client seems to work better. But I know the reasoning behind the recommendation and I used this guide to install. (thanks)! I don't want to give up yet!
Anyway, I am having a bunch of problems, first my router was rebooting itself with high cpu usage (I think) when downloading a single torrent- I checked in top.
Then a moment a go my router forgot its internet connection settings and I had to re-enter them for it to connect to my modem.
And now after a few mins of downloading, instead of rebooting the process seems to just hang, I can't connect via web browser or via remote gui and cpu usage goes down to next to nothing.
I can force close and start the daemon but the same happens over again in a cycle. If I leave it 10 mins, it starts to work again, but at a very low transfer rate.
Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this? I just want to get stable.
I already made a 500mb swap file that doesn't seem to help. (Does it matter the swap file being on the same disk as the torrent download destination)?
I am using the default settings posted here, so total number of connections shouldn't be the problem?
My internet connection is 60/20 fibre.
My total aim is to use the media server and samba server too, is this asking too much of my RT-N16?
Thanks!
Thanks for helping me
Mount:
Code:
thenames@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
devfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /jffs type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /tmp/mnt/sda1 type ext3 (rw,nodev,noatime,data=ordered)
thenames@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root#Free:
Code:
thenames@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 126452 44208 82244 0 3908
-/+ buffers: 40300 86152
Swap: 524280 4736 519544df:
Code:
thenames@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 24512 24512 0 100% /
tmpfs 63224 2400 60824 4% /tmp
devfs 63224 0 63224 0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock4 6656 516 6140 8% /jffs
/dev/sda1 480719056 2929876 453369980 1% /tmp/mnt/sda1
thenames@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root#top -b -n1:
I took this when temporary lost connection to the daemon, at the time it was downloading at 600 kB/s but after it connected again, it fell down to 100. This seems to often happen.
Code:
thenames@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root# top -b -n1
Mem: 124428K used, 2024K free, 0K shrd, 1132K buff, 7836K cached
CPU: 92.3% usr 7.6% sys 0.0% nic 0.0% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 0.0% sirq
Load average: 1.99 0.91 0.39 4/60 4144
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
4121 4118 thenames R 169m137.1 0 92.1 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -a *.*.*.* -g /opt/etc/transmission-daemon
4144 4078 thenames R 1436 1.1 0 7.6 top -b -n1
4124 4118 thenames S 169m137.1 0 0.0 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -a *.*.*.* -g /opt/etc/transmission-daemon
4122 4118 thenames S 169m137.1 0 0.0 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -a *.*.*.* -g /opt/etc/transmission-daemon
4117 1 thenames S 169m137.1 0 0.0 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -a *.*.*.* -g /opt/etc/transmission-daemon
4118 4117 thenames S 169m137.1 0 0.0 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -a *.*.*.* -g /opt/etc/transmission-daemon
4069 1 thenames S 3868 3.0 0 0.0 httpd
579 1 thenames S 3244 2.5 0 0.0 smbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf
578 1 thenames S 2380 1.8 0 0.0 nmbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf
294 1 thenames S 2332 1.8 0 0.0 watchdog
1 0 thenames S 2300 1.8 0 0.0 /sbin/init noinitrd
265 1 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 /sbin/wanduck
303 294 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 ots
1124 1 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 usbled
860 1 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 ntp
1038 1 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 disk_monitor
282 1 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 wpsaide
143 1 thenames S 2288 1.8 0 0.0 console
1131 1130 thenames S 2104 1.6 0 0.0 u2ec
1130 1 thenames S 2104 1.6 0 0.0 u2ec
1132 1131 thenames S 2104 1.6 0 0.0 u2ec
1120 1 thenames S 1892 1.5 0 0.0 /bin/wps_monitor
928 1 thenames S 1508 1.1 0 0.0 /usr/sbin/pppd file /tmp/ppp/options.wan0
1123 1 thenames S 1508 1.1 0 0.0 nas
287 1 thenames S 1440 1.1 0 0.0 crond
4078 4076 thenames S 1440 1.1 0 0.0 -sh
896 862 thenames S 1440 1.1 0 0.0 wget --spider -q -t 2 -T 30 http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/LiveUpdate/Release/Wireless/Packages.gz
926 1 thenames D 1436 1.1 0 0.0 udhcpc -i eth0 -p /var/run/udhcpc0.pid -s /tmp/udhcpc -b -O33 -O249
147 143 thenames S 1436 1.1 0 0.0 /bin/sh
862 1 thenames S 1436 1.1 0 0.0 {app_update.sh} /bin/sh /usr/sbin/app_update.sh
3978 1 thenames S 1428 1.1 0 0.0 syslogd -m 0 -S -O /tmp/syslog.log -s 256 -l 7
4002 1 thenames S 1428 1.1 0 0.0 telnetd
3980 1 thenames S 1428 1.1 0 0.0 /sbin/klogd
291 1 thenames S 1292 1.0 0 0.0 rstats
443 1 thenames S 1180 0.9 0 0.0 lpd
4076 3993 thenames S 1176 0.9 0 0.0 dropbear -p 22 -j -k
305 1 thenames S 1156 0.9 0 0.0 lld2d br0
1116 1 thenames S 1108 0.8 0 0.0 /bin/eapd
3993 1 thenames S 1108 0.8 0 0.0 dropbear -p 22 -j -k
1128 1 thenames S 1100 0.8 0 0.0 networkmap
288 1 thenames S 1088 0.8 0 0.0 /usr/sbin/infosvr br0
4005 1 nobody S 1008 0.8 0 0.0 dnsmasq --log-async
4075 1 thenames S 812 0.6 0 0.0 miniupnpd -f /etc/upnp/config
114 1 thenames S 648 0.5 0 0.0 hotplug2 --persistent --no-coldplug
213 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [usb-storage]
3 2 thenames RWN 0 0.0 0 0.0 [ksoftirqd/0]
93 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [mtdblockd]
48 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kswapd0]
1278 2 thenames SW 0 0.0 0 0.0 [pdflush]
1232 2 thenames SW 0 0.0 0 0.0 [pdflush]
352 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kjournald]
20 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kblockd/0]
4 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [events/0]
2 0 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kthreadd]
110 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kmmcd]
152 2 thenames SWN 0 0.0 0 0.0 [jffs2_gcd_mtd4]
49 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [aio/0]
5 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [khelper]
158 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [khubd]
212 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [scsi_eh_0]settings.json
Code:
"alt-speed-down": 50,
"alt-speed-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
"alt-speed-time-day": 127,
"alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
"alt-speed-up": 50,
"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"bind-address-ipv6": "::",
"blocklist-enabled": true,
"blocklist-url": "http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1",
"cache-size-mb": 200,
"dht-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/tmp/mnt/sda1/Transmission",
"download-queue-enabled": true,
"download-queue-size": 3,
"encryption": 0,
"idle-seeding-limit": 180,
"idle-seeding-limit-enabled": true,
"incomplete-dir": "/tmp/mnt/sda1/Transmission/Incomplete",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"lpd-enabled": false,
"message-level": 2,
"peer-congestion-algorithm": "",
"peer-id-ttl-hours": 6,
"peer-limit-global": 80,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 30,
"peer-port": 51413,
"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
"peer-port-random-low": 49152,
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"peer-socket-tos": "default",
"pex-enabled": true,
"pidfile": "/var/run/transmission-daemon.pid",
"port-forwarding-enabled": true,
"preallocation": 1,
"prefetch-enabled": 1,
"queue-stalled-enabled": true,
"queue-stalled-minutes": 30,
"ratio-limit": 3,
"ratio-limit-enabled": true,
"rename-partial-files": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": true,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "{ba5e80c958a816bac9e2b323e05c652cc89bf6aej/IFNxRm",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-url": "/transmission/",
"rpc-username": "thenames",
"rpc-whitelist": "*.*.*.*",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
"scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true,
"script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
"script-torrent-done-filename": "",
"seed-queue-enabled": false,
"seed-queue-size": 10,
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
"speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
"start-added-torrents": true,
"trash-original-torrent-files": false,
"umask": 0,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 10,
"utp-enabled": falseIt looks from top that thre is high cpu usage, but it seems to jump from 10-50% straight to 90%+ and then the daemon freezes/can't connect to it any more via remote gui. I sit watching the cpu usage and it seems fine and then suddenly it just stops, sometimes temporarily, sometimes for 10 mins, sometimes for good.
Heres another top entry, this time quite a while after the connection to the daemon stopped.
I repeat that command and sometimes it shows 95% sometimes 5%. Now transmission remote gui says error 301: Moved permanently. Oh the other thing is, if I use :
after the daemon disconnects, it takes quite a while to close down the client, probably because it needs to force it close?
Code:
thenames@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root# top -b -n1
Mem: 124584K used, 1868K free, 0K shrd, 576K buff, 5080K cached
CPU: 0.0% usr 15.3% sys 0.0% nic 0.0% idle 53.8% io 7.6% irq 23.0% sirq
Load average: 2.23 1.99 1.10 4/59 4182
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
4121 4118 thenames R 309m250.3 0 7.6 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -a *.*.*.* -g /opt/etc/transmission-daemon
4182 4078 thenames R 1436 1.1 0 7.6 top -b -n1
4124 4118 thenames S 309m250.3 0 0.0 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -a *.*.*.* -g /opt/etc/transmission-daemon
4118 4117 thenames S 309m250.3 0 0.0 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -a *.*.*.* -g /opt/etc/transmission-daemon
4117 1 thenames S 309m250.3 0 0.0 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -a *.*.*.* -g /opt/etc/transmission-daemon
4069 1 thenames S 3868 3.0 0 0.0 httpd
579 1 thenames S 3244 2.5 0 0.0 smbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf
578 1 thenames S 2380 1.8 0 0.0 nmbd -D -s /etc/smb.conf
294 1 thenames S 2332 1.8 0 0.0 watchdog
1 0 thenames S 2300 1.8 0 0.0 /sbin/init noinitrd
265 1 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 /sbin/wanduck
303 294 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 ots
1124 1 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 usbled
860 1 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 ntp
1038 1 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 disk_monitor
282 1 thenames S 2296 1.8 0 0.0 wpsaide
143 1 thenames S 2288 1.8 0 0.0 console
1131 1130 thenames S 2104 1.6 0 0.0 u2ec
1130 1 thenames S 2104 1.6 0 0.0 u2ec
1132 1131 thenames S 2104 1.6 0 0.0 u2ec
1120 1 thenames S 1892 1.5 0 0.0 /bin/wps_monitor
928 1 thenames S 1508 1.1 0 0.0 /usr/sbin/pppd file /tmp/ppp/options.wan0
1123 1 thenames S 1508 1.1 0 0.0 nas
4078 4076 thenames S 1448 1.1 0 0.0 -sh
287 1 thenames S 1440 1.1 0 0.0 crond
896 862 thenames S 1440 1.1 0 0.0 wget --spider -q -t 2 -T 30 http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/LiveUpdate/Release/Wireless/Packages.gz
926 1 thenames S 1436 1.1 0 0.0 udhcpc -i eth0 -p /var/run/udhcpc0.pid -s /tmp/udhcpc -b -O33 -O249
147 143 thenames S 1436 1.1 0 0.0 /bin/sh
862 1 thenames S 1436 1.1 0 0.0 {app_update.sh} /bin/sh /usr/sbin/app_update.sh
3978 1 thenames S 1428 1.1 0 0.0 syslogd -m 0 -S -O /tmp/syslog.log -s 256 -l 7
4002 1 thenames S 1428 1.1 0 0.0 telnetd
3980 1 thenames S 1428 1.1 0 0.0 /sbin/klogd
291 1 thenames S 1292 1.0 0 0.0 rstats
443 1 thenames S 1180 0.9 0 0.0 lpd
4076 3993 thenames S 1176 0.9 0 0.0 dropbear -p 22 -j -k
305 1 thenames S 1156 0.9 0 0.0 lld2d br0
1116 1 thenames S 1108 0.8 0 0.0 /bin/eapd
3993 1 thenames S 1108 0.8 0 0.0 dropbear -p 22 -j -k
1128 1 thenames S 1100 0.8 0 0.0 networkmap
288 1 thenames S 1088 0.8 0 0.0 /usr/sbin/infosvr br0
4005 1 nobody S 1008 0.8 0 0.0 dnsmasq --log-async
4075 1 thenames S 812 0.6 0 0.0 miniupnpd -f /etc/upnp/config
114 1 thenames S 648 0.5 0 0.0 hotplug2 --persistent --no-coldplug
213 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [usb-storage]
3 2 thenames SWN 0 0.0 0 0.0 [ksoftirqd/0]
93 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [mtdblockd]
48 2 thenames DW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kswapd0]
1278 2 thenames SW 0 0.0 0 0.0 [pdflush]
1232 2 thenames SW 0 0.0 0 0.0 [pdflush]
352 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kjournald]
20 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kblockd/0]
4 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [events/0]
2 0 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kthreadd]
110 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kmmcd]
49 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [aio/0]
152 2 thenames SWN 0 0.0 0 0.0 [jffs2_gcd_mtd4]
212 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [scsi_eh_0]
5 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [khelper]
158 2 thenames SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [khubd]I repeat that command and sometimes it shows 95% sometimes 5%. Now transmission remote gui says error 301: Moved permanently. Oh the other thing is, if I use :
Code:
/opt/etc/init.d/S95transmission stop
Code:
Stopping transmission-daemon:......................[KILLED]
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Sorry I forgot to mention I changed the cache to see if it would start to use the SWAP, with only the default of 2, no swap was being used.
Having said that, before I changed the cache from 2 too 200 the router was rebooting when downloading torrents, instead now it just freezes/disconnects the remote ui.
When I was using Tomato shibby it was similar, but I didn't have swap activated for that. I do remember though it wasn't using anywhere near the limit of memory, but I was having the same slowdowns/disconnects of the server.
I am wondering if the culprit is my USB drive, if you can't see anything else wrong with my config I'll plug my USB flash drive in instead to see if it suffers from the same problems.
Edit* Just put cache back to 2mb and its still using the swap, thats an improvement at least. It lasted a lot longer without crashing, but eventually things came to an end. The web interface of transmission says "unable to save resume file - input output error". The router is working for web browsing, just can't access its web interface any more, so its crashed again, not just transmission, but the web interface too. I can't even access via telnet or ssh. I also had a reboot just now.
Having said that, before I changed the cache from 2 too 200 the router was rebooting when downloading torrents, instead now it just freezes/disconnects the remote ui.
When I was using Tomato shibby it was similar, but I didn't have swap activated for that. I do remember though it wasn't using anywhere near the limit of memory, but I was having the same slowdowns/disconnects of the server.
I am wondering if the culprit is my USB drive, if you can't see anything else wrong with my config I'll plug my USB flash drive in instead to see if it suffers from the same problems.
Edit* Just put cache back to 2mb and its still using the swap, thats an improvement at least. It lasted a lot longer without crashing, but eventually things came to an end. The web interface of transmission says "unable to save resume file - input output error". The router is working for web browsing, just can't access its web interface any more, so its crashed again, not just transmission, but the web interface too. I can't even access via telnet or ssh. I also had a reboot just now.
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