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2010
05
Feb

How to queue torrents in Transmission

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Transmission

I have been using Transmission bit torrent client for quite some time. Its powerful, runs in the background, is processor friendly ( maximum that i have seen it use is 5% that too on a P4 1.7GHz system with more than 75 torrents).

But what I find it lacking is its ability to queue torrents. Still at version 1.83 1.92 (which is what I am using currently) and no queuing … :( .Only the Mac version supports queuing.

So in search of the holy grail I landed up at this Transmission discussion forum thread and found this queue script.

Even though the script worked well, I found that the script had some short comings.

I had added a bunch of torrents to seed them, when I found that the script (scheduled to run at an interval of 5 minutes) stopped the newly added torrents which were being verified or were scheduled to be verified before seeding.

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2009
28
Mar

A n00bs guide to QoS

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Quality of Service

QoS or Quality of Service as is defined by Wikipedia states :

In the field of computer networking and other packet-switched telecommunication networks, the traffic engineering term quality of service (QoS) refers to resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality. Quality of service is the ability to provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow. For example, a required bit rate, delay, jitter, packet dropping probability and/or bit error rate may be guaranteed. Quality of service guarantees are important if the network capacity is insufficient, especially for real-time streaming multimedia applications such as voice over IP, online games and IP-TV, since these often require fixed bit rate and are delay sensitive, and in networks where the capacity is a limited resource, for example in cellular data communication.

In layman’s term QoS is the process by which you set some pre-defined rules which determines which data packets are to be allowed first based on their priority level.

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