Apple M3 Ultra - Hackdot

Re:Apple M3 Ultra by e40 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:02AM (#43267447)

I torrent things from two different hosts on my gigabit network. The macos stack literally cannot handle the full bandwidth I have. It fails and the machine needs to be rebooted to fix it. It’s not pretty on the way into this state, either. Other remote connections to the computer are unreliable. On Linux, running the same app in a docker container works perfectly. Transmission is the app.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by kstrauser on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:18AM (#43267669)

I get nearly 10Gbps from my NAS to my Mac Studio. It absolutely can handle that bandwidth. It may not handle that specific client well for unrelated reasons.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by egorfine on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:18PM (#43270216)

Bandwidth, yes. Connections count, no.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by petecooper on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:13AM (#43267599)

>Transmission is the app.

Former Transmission user here.

I realise you didn't ask, but you might find some improvements in qBittorrent.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by e40 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:34AM (#43268860)

The Linux version, in a container no less, handles the entire gigabit bandwidth.

And let's be clear, it wasn't the app that had problems, the Apple Remote Desktop connection to the machine failed when the speeds got above 40MB/s and the network interface stopped working around 80MB/s.

I think Transmission works perfectly fine. I've been using it for 10+ years with no issues at all on Linux.

I forgot to mention this is a Mac mini/Intel (2018).

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by jeffhuys on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:01AM (#43268359)

I went to Transmission years and years ago because it's just simple. It has all the options if you need them, but no HUUUGE interface with RSS feeds, 10001 stats about your download, categories, tags, etc etc etc.

Transmission is just a small, floating window with your downloads. Click for more. It fits in the macOS vibe. But I'm a person that fully adopted the original macOS "way of working" - kicked the full-screen habit I had in windows and never felt better.

Can I ask, why would you go FROM Transmission to qBittorrent?

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by petecooper on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:17AM (#43268599)

>why would you go FROM Transmission to qBittorrent?

In my case: some torrents wouldn't find known-good seeds in Transmission but worked fine in qBittorrent; there's reasonable (but not perfect) support for libtorrent 2.0 in qBittorrent; my download speeds and overall responsiveness is anecdotally better in qBittorrent, and; I make use of some of the nitty gritty settings in qBittorrent.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by jeffhuys on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:32AM (#43268816)

Well there's a list of good reasons! Thanks for answering. I haven't had any problems with finding seeds, and no need for libtorrent but now I know how to fix that when I do encounter those situations.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by jihadjihad on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:21AM (#43267715)

I haven't had any issue running BiglyBT on my M1 MacBook, granted I don't run it all day every day but everything runs plenty fast for my needs (25-30 MB/s for well-seeded torrents).

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