Install Transmission on a PirateBox

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Install Transmission on a PirateBox
March 20, 2018 03:25AM
Hello,

I would just like to ask if it would be possible to install a Transmission interface to the box to download torrent files directly to the shared folder?

Thanks.

Regards,

Snipy
Re: Install Transmission on a PirateBox
March 29, 2018 09:21PM
Hi,
on RPi: yes, that should be possible.. still a normal Linux
on OpenWrt: maybe more difficult.

best regards Matthias
Re: Install Transmission on a PirateBox
April 03, 2018 02:51AM
Matthias Wrote:
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> Hi,
> on RPi: yes, that should be possible.. still a
> normal Linux
> on OpenWrt: maybe more difficult.
>
> best regards Matthias

Hello Sir Matthias,

I've successfully installed transmission on my pbox by allowing temporary internet connection (followed the HOW TO page). I have a 32 GB Sandisk ultrafit 3.0 usb drive and setup correct download directories by rerouting it to /usb/PirateBox/Shared folder. I've been using it for 2 days now and I've observed that the box reboots sometimes (during downloads). I'm just wondering if there's a way to create a swap space partition to improve the memory usage and avoid frequent restarts of the box due to heavy loads or network traffic?

Thank you and best reagrds,

Snipy
Re: Install Transmission on a PirateBox
April 18, 2018 03:33AM
I've tried increasing the swap space to 128 MB but still the box reboots

swapoff -a
. /etc/ext.config
dd if=/dev/zero of="$ext_swapimg" bs=1M count=128
mkswap "$ext_swapimg"
swapon "$ext_swapimg"

Regards,

Snipy
Re: Install Transmission on a PirateBox
April 30, 2018 02:11PM
Hi,
reboot is not necessarily a swap or memory issue.
The reboot occurs as well, when the operating system is under very heavy load - continuously working on IO etc. and can not refresh the dead-man switch (watchdog).

After a while, the router chip thinks, that the OS is dead and triggers a reboot.

Matthias