Using Tixati with BTRFS storage (either in Linux or Windows) causes downloads to be interrupted at every flush interval (by default 30s). This usually keeps it from reaching the maximum download speed. Googling didn't return any results, so it seems to be an application-specific issue. It would be great for this to be fixed. Thanks.

I'm also using Tixati and BTRFS on a 2TB hard drive. I've noticed Tixati will freeze or slowdown during heavy writing to the underlying storage. I'm guessing the Tixati write cache is full and the storage is taxed out with I/O. At that point the Tixati process will block, waiting for I/O to complete.


I haven't found an option or setting in Tixati to increase the write cache, like you can with uTorrent and others. It'd be nice to give Tixati 1GiB of memory for unwritten pieces.


Are you downloading to a NoCOW folder? If not, the files might be heavily fragmented. We're talking a new extent per every piece you download. You could try setting the +C attribute (with chattr) on the Tixati download folder (only applies to new files and folders under the directory) or try running btrfs fi defragment.