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Transmission could be updating DHT as well. You could move it to a USB stick. That's how I run mine, just to "completed" and "incomplete" are on physical HDD.

check netstat -a

Just a passing comment.

None of the firmwares have ever had a hibernation problem, and consequently, none of them fixes hibernation.

If you have a hibernation problem, you basically need to trackdown the cause, and eliminate it - I would suggest unplugging the NAS from the network as the first step - if the problem stops, the cause is external, it's not the network, but a process running on another system attempting to access the NAS via the network.  If the problem persists with the network cable disconnected, then the cause is a process running on the NAS.

How do montior, track the NAS acitivity while it's unplugged from the network?

bound4h wrote:

How do montior, track the NAS acitivity while it's unplugged from the network?

All you need to do to determine if the unit has hibernated is to look at the power light - if it's dim the unit has hibernated, if it's bright, it's not.  For the purposes of this test, that's all the monitoring that's required.

fordem wrote:

bound4h wrote:

How do montior, track the NAS acitivity while it's unplugged from the network?

All you need to do to determine if the unit has hibernated is to look at the power light - if it's dim the unit has hibernated, if it's bright, it's not.  For the purposes of this test, that's all the monitoring that's required.

There are three lights, one for Left HDD, center for Network Activity, and one for Right HDD.  Which one are saying is "power"?  Do you mean HDD Activity?

karlrado wrote:

Isn't Transmission a suspect here?  Or am I missing something?

I'll be very disapointed if it is because I switch to Transmission over BitTorrent add-on because this add-on was keeping my HDD awake all the time.

bound4h wrote:

There are three lights, one for Left HDD, center for Network Activity, and one for Right HDD.  Which one are saying is "power"?  Do you mean HDD Activity?

You're kidding me right?  There is a fourth light - behind the power button - lights the whole button up when it's on.  It's real hard to miss.

I keep this light off.

Well I did what fordem told, to turn off every computer on my network and see if this is the problem but it isn't. I think that the problem is related to the internet connectivity.
Last night I've checked with netstat and I see 4 connections of Transmission to the network. Probably open connection because of the last torrent that I was downloading. I'll keep my testing and tracking tomorrow, without torrent in the queue and after a reboot of the DNS-323 to clean the TCP connections.

Karlrado, as I post before when I disconnect the network cable the disk sleep just fine. So it's not something localy on the DNS-323, is something related to internet connectivity (check for update, new files, new blocked database, etc).

I'll be disapointed because I use one torrent at the time in Transmission and when it finish download I do remove the torrent so Transmission don't have activity related to torrent's itself.

Tomorrow is the day that I'll try more scenarios to see what happen and if Transmission is playing the bad guy here. Move all the Transmission file to a USB stick seem a good option too since I don't use my USB port.

http://bfg100k.blogspot.com/2008/06/mov … stick.html

The last link suggests moving all of ffp onto a USB disk, which is pretty cool and would give you some other benefits.

But I still question why you want to run transmission with the expectation of letting the disks sleep.

Transmission's purpose in life is to move bits back and forth between your hard disk and the Internet and it obviously needs the hard disk to do so.  Stopping Transmission when not using it makes some sense.

If I really wanted to try to let the disks sleep when Transmission is running but idle, I'd try a few things before resorting to a more involved approach like moving ffp to a USB stick.

I note my version of Transmission creates a file structure .config/transmission/... and in it are a bunch of files that may be active at run time, like a socket file, lock file, state, etc.  I would first do whatever I could to get these files to reside on the ramdisk, the root filesystem, instead of the hard disk.  This may involve changing a config file or setting certain options when starting the daemon.  (The details are specific to the version)  I'd also look for other files, other than the torrents and actual torrent data files, that may be open and active that could be placed on the ramdisk.  Watch out for running out of space on the ramdisk.

The lsof command can be used to locate files that Transmission has open in order to help grok this out.

The other thing you'll run into is that the Transmission binary and all the libs it uses are on the hard disk as well.  One thing I am not certain of is that if a program is already running and has loaded itself and its libs into memory, I don't know if the hard disk can sleep with these binaries running in a process.  I'm sure someone here knows more about this.  I doubt that you would be able to copy transmission and all its dependent libraries to the ramdisk without running out of room.  So, if you are lucky, the disk might sleep even if the binaries are on the hard disk.

I also don't think that you can install just transmission on a USB stick for the same reasons - it would still access libs in /ffp which is still on the hard disk unless you move all of ffp there.

If all this fails, I would then probably try to write wrapper scripts to start transmission on demand and stop it when idle.

Presumably, I'd want to start it when I have a new torrent.  So the script would start T if not already running and use transmission-remote to add the torrent to the list.

There might also be another simple sh script that runs all the time and sleeps for a period, only to wake up every so often and use transmission-remote to see if T is idle.  It would then shut it down if it was idle.

I think that there is another thread in the forum going on about something like this.

But the details depend on exactly how you are using T, which we don't know.

Good luck.

FunFiler wrote:

Install in the default location (or use your existing install) and then just move the directory to appropriate places. Keep in mind that the "incomplete" and "complete" directories should be configured to HDD space not USB stick as these could contain large files. (unless you have a really big USB stick)

Moving the rest of the directories is easy enough with the mv command.

The link provided by bjby moves all of ffp to a usb stick. This is of course an option, but not required.

Is that simple? Just move the program files?
Because I've saw a file (transmission.sh) in the ffp/start that points to Transmission Home= mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-deamon.
I need to update this path? What other paths do I need to move?

I'll try first to move only Transmission and if it's not work I'll try to move all the ffp.

Edit: Since Transmission uses libs in HD_a2 probably I'll need to move ffp to the usb.

Last edited by surfing10 (2010-12-17 23:31:01)