I’m curious to know if anybody else finds their computer behaving sluggishly or erratically when downloading torrents.
For the record: I use transmission on a 2020 imac and have tried other clients to little avial. A virus and/or activity check doesn’t reveal anything untoward going on in the background.
I’m not sure what’s going on, but torrenting is either resource intensive (possibly RAM) or writing to the harddrive results in poor performance overall. Or maybe its something else (like my vpn draining resources)? Either way, when I torrent I might as well walk away from my computer because that’s all it seems it wants to do, and even then its performance remains erratic.
Running a torrent can have a pretty significant draw on bandwidth, but it shouldn’t affect much else.
If you’re doing things locally it should be almost unnoticeable. If you’re trying to surf the net or stream video then you will absolutely see a performance hit.
If that is what you’re doing, you can set bandwidth limits on most clients (I have no experience with Transmission) to make the experience better
Bittorrent opens a ton of simultaneous connections that can overwhelm the pos router supplied by some ISPs. If that’s your issue, lowering the max # of connections could not only clear it up but also increase your download speed
This was my fix also. Switched to my own router and no problems since then. Should really have bought one sooner honestly.
Unfortunately it’s not always an option. Switched to fiber and speeds are great but I have to severly limit the amount of connections and active torrents because the POS modem ddoses itself with too many packets and ISP does not allow switching for your own hardware.
I used to run hundreds of torrents on early 2000s hardware and it was fine. Not sure what the problem is, but it’s not the bittorrent protocol.
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