Hello! I'm having an issue where Tixati crashes quite frequently (4-5 times an hour)

All my downloads are automated through RSS feeds, and I can't track down a log file to supply more information (although I can open the file operations verbose logger, but it doesn't include any information before it crashes)

I've tried limiting the number of concurrent downloads, disabling feeds, checking the hardisk for errors, etc. but to no avail. Is there anything else I can do to provide more information regarding these crashes and hopefully finding a solution?

what OS and what version of tixati?

are you sending in error reports? thats the best way to get crashes fixed.

what are you doing when it crashes?

If by crash you mean the main GUI window "freezes" not responding... you likely have a disk problem
The disk is too active (check with Task Manager Ctrl-Alt-Del) ... 4 times an hour is the average seek time between backups of your .DAT files.

Please provide more information :)

Hi All,
thanks so much for the reply, and I apologize for the delay...I couldn't find my post!

The install is on windows 10, and it definitely crashes. I'm sending crash reports via the pop-up many times a day (sometimes as many as 60-70.)

It appears to be with a specific torrent, but unfortunately, I can't track down which one. i DID manage to temporarily "fix" the issue by renaming core2.dat within %appdata% and letting it rebuild, but i lost everything in my queue.

This is the third time the issue has arisen. The last 2 times I tried a clean install of Tixati (to a fresh directory) and had no luck. I ended up reinstalling windows on a new disk to get it to work for approx. 2 months, but now, I'm having issues again.

I wish I had more to give in terms of details, but this is where I am.

OK this is more information. Are you running the 32bit program on a 64 bit system or the 64 bit EXE.
Did you install TIxati or do you run it in portable mode? What version (you should see in the top titlebar, or if you click help -> About)

Sending in the reports is good. BUT if you would upload to a filehost and link here the dev/moderator team would be able to directly link this info to YOU and help your case :D

Uhm, I think the default place for the dumps is \Desktop . OK so assuming you're at the computer 10-12 hours, if its 60x, thats every 12 minutes, faster than the .dat files are being saved. Are you using Tixati on your system drive? In My Computer (This PC) is C: I have D: Recovery (default setup for an HP) and E: is my torrent area. Z: is my network/removable drive for completed downloads.

I am running x64, Tixati version 2.47.

I would more more than happy to include a dump, but nothing seems to be generated. I wish I had a debug output to share. I do know of the debug window, but nothing is ever included in it during a crash nor immediately after. I am in fact using Tixati on system (c:) non-partitioned, and it is an SSD. error checking came back clean, and it's not fragmented.

A few times tixati had crashed on my system without apparent dump, last being last night. Would be nice to have some prevention as to not having to do large rechecks. To the user above, ssds dont need defragmentation, even hdds might not need defrag at all, specially If you are using it for torrents.

what are you doing when tixati crashes?

downloading/seeding? a lot/ a little?

are channels running? if so, how many channels are you in?

Personally I up-down a lot and have noticed it can result in at least temporal disk failure. Once I remember getting PFN_LIST_CORRUPT and had to do an OS restoration, luckily files didnt get compromised. I do not use channels.

no channels.

It varies in terms of quantity of downloads, as it's all fed from RSS. Active download slots is set at 10, and i rarely have more than 100 items in queue. This doesn't seem to matter though, as many months ago, I had thousands of queued, and no problems at all. It's almost like a specific torrent is doing it, but unfortunately, I can't track down which one.

@ both guests who are crashing --> so, it's just running normally when it crashes?

about how long is tixati running before it crashes?

if you could narrow down what torrent is the problem one send it to the devs. support at tixati dot com

to narrow it down you could try stopping all your transfers and then just start the seeding ones and see if you crash. if all is fine, stop all transfers again and just start the downloading ones. now you should be able to narrow it down to at least downloading or seeding.

now start a few downloads or seeds(which ever side is crashing) and start narrowing it down.

if it is a specific torrent, sending it to the devs is the best way to get it fixed.

Recheck/restart upon loading is a SETTING for Tixati, turn OFF "resume started transfers on load"... I have that OFF but Channels ON because its easier that way. Especially with Tixati's behaviour with networked drives.

Agreed @Guests with the problem I wish I could ask more information, but that's all Iknow about as far as diagnosis internal to Tixati. If you CANT tell which torrent it is.
But you can FORCE it to happen. Does the GUI freeze, program exit out, or it just seem slow.
If its just slow you can use Help -> Diagnostics to load before it freeze, then once it is you can TAB to that window and save the TXT log

Posted same on another thread.

I have the BSOD often.
after about 10minutes.
Tixati 2.48 (latest)
and vpnunlimited.
i shut all else off.

it seems if i have tixati running on desktop, it happens.

as of right now, i havent crashed for 15m   while im on the forums.
with botch vpn and tixati hidden behind the browser.
So perhaps its a gui issue with one  or the other.

hope that helps someone. :)

oh, win10, 1gb hdd.  C:

I've had one BSOD recently, the MEMORY_MANAGEMENT one, not sure If the cause was tixati though, but a thing is for certain, my HDD was under heavy usage from more than half a thousand tors that time, so the advice for everyone is keep the greed low as to save storage trashing and the eventual loss of money due to undue disk utilization. The other thing I have come across quite often recently is tixatis crashes. Anyway, I've sent the reports so the devs are well aware of the failures, hopefully they'll find a fix, otherwise its my pc which got the problems.