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Why does my iTunes hate my Transmission?

Asked by DeanV (14216points) March 15th, 2009

Whenever I open my iTunes along with Transmission at the same time, iTunes starts giving me the spinning beachball of death. However, when I close transmission, iTunes starts to function fine again.

I don’t really know why it only does this with transmission, the rest of the apps I’ve tried it with are fine. However, I do have quite a few apps open in the background all the time (Typinator, Dropbox, Anxiety, ScrobblePod, Caffine, and Mainmenu) and wonder if this could be the case.

Or maybe this is just Apple’s way of messing with bit torrent.

Help!

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willbrawn's avatar

Transmission is a major resource hog. I have a hard time running anything in general when transmission is running.

DeanV's avatar

That could be it. Maybe iTunes just puts it over the top.

But iStat doesn’t really show any drastic RAM or CPU increase…

bluedoggiant's avatar

Ditto…

I have found Transmission an EXTREMELY lightweight app. I run it on my 24” 2.8GHz iMac 4GB RAM.

DeanV's avatar

I wouldn’t really consider transmision “lightweight” but i don’t really think it is a resource hog. It uses about the same RAM as Safari, etc.

The only thing it eats when I use it is my bandwidth.

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