[Bug 1987019] Re: Large torrent downloads render the system near unresponsive

[Chris Guiver]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

You've filed this issue against `do-release-upgrade` or `update-manager`
which does not download large torrents in the upgrading from one release
to a later release. Your install has also not used that tool since it
was installed (that I can see).

You also mention a "disk related problem" in your description.

Bug reporting is mostly about finding & fixing problems thus preventing
future users from hitting the same bug.

I suspect a Support site would be more appropriate, eg.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu. You can also find help with your
problem in the support forum of your local Ubuntu community
http://loco.ubuntu.com/ or asking at https://askubuntu.com or
https://ubuntuforums.org, or for more support options please look at
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-support/709

I've marked this bug as 'incomplete', as I see no evidence of an issue
with `do-release-upgrade`, which likely means you've filed against the
incorrect package, but it also looks to me you'd benefit mostly from
support.  If you believe I'm in error, you can please leave a comment
outlining why and the status can be returned to "New", though you may
wish to change package first as I don't see attempts to upgrade your
22.04 system to 22.10

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Large torrent downloads render the system near unresponsive

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Kubuntu 22.04 (the same problem was in earlier versions)
  When downloading any large torrent (80-100 GB) the system becomes near unresponsive at some point during the download. By near unresponsive I mean that clicking on the torrent client window or another window that requires disk access (example, KDE Kate) may take a minute or more to gain focus, any attempt to issue a command eg. save file takes a similar amount of time. Concurrently the download speed drops markedly (from say 10 MB/s to less than 1 MB/s, often much lower).

  If the torrent client is closed and any attempt to copy/move the file
  it created is painfully slow, instead of transferring the file
  (internal HDD to internal HDD) at roughly 120MB/s the speed is reduced
  to a couple of hundred KB/s with multi MB bursts on occasion. In total
  it takes 5-6 hours to copy a 70GB file from one disk to another.

  I have tested a number of torrent clients and they all suffer the same
  problem and I have repeated the tests using the same clients (tixati,
  qbittorrent, <Ktorrent>) and the same download target on the same PC
  on Windows which have no problems, I can download the files at 10MB/s
  and transfer the files to another disk as per normal.

  As it appears this is a disk related problem I have replaced the disk
  and Gsmartcontrol reports no issues of concern.

  Please note that downloading smaller files do not display this
  problem, downloading a 20-30GB file shows no problems. In the
  beginning large files also display no problems but at some point the
  system slows down, I cannot pinpoint an exact size or percentage when
  the problem starts.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.04.13
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-46.49-generic 5.15.39
  Uname: Linux 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Fri Aug 19 10:16:23 2022
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-05-06 (104 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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