When an application wants to draw something, it establishes a connection with WindowServer, tells WindowServer what to draw, and WindowServer handles the drawing / compositing / Quartz Extreme hardware acceleration to finally produce what's seen on the entire screen. It acts as a mediator between applications that want to draw on the screen and the graphics hardware. "WindowServer draws everything you see on the screen. I'm not saying this IS what's going on but a couple of ideas to consider. Failing Ram can cause all sorts of wierdness including a runaway processlike you're experiencing. Or it hangs permanently and I have to force quit.
I would recommend a sector test of the hard drive just to rule that out or confirm. After running BitTorrent client (currently v7.4.3) for Mac a while, if I try to scroll the list of torrents it either Beachballs for a while and then becomes active again till I scroll another time. Considering the age of your iMac it's possible that the Hard Drive is just starting to fail and by extension beginning to corrupt the data that resides there. Pay attention to your other apps and notice if you see any beach balling anywhere else.
This torrent client is one of the first that were’ introduced in the P2P technology, and it rivals big names like BitTorrent and uTorrent. I haven't seen anybody with this issue on this forum and a google search doesn't reveal any useful information related to Bittorrent /uTorrent specifically. If you’re familiar with Linux Genome, you’ll feel at home while using Deluge. In my experience when you're having issues with WindowServer it's more of a problem with the OS than the app. I dropped a good explanation in quotes at the bottom of this post from MacRumours and here's the Link I got it from. Auto-grouping won't apply until torrents are demagnetized Tweak the inspector's and add window's file lists to avoid auto-hiding scrollbars overlapping the priority controls Fix potential crash when downloading and seeding complete at the same time Fix bug where stopped torrents might start when waking the computer from sleep Fix a bug that prevented IPv6 addresses from being saved in dht.dat Better handling of magnet links that contain 'tr.WindowServer in OS X is the process that controls all screen draws and all GUI elements you see on screen.
Auto-grouping won't apply until torrents are demagnetized Tweak the inspector's and add window's file lists to avoid auto-hiding scrollbars overlapping the priority controls Fix potential crash when downloading and seeding complete at the same time Fix bug where stopped torrents might start when waking the computer from sleep Fix a bug that prevented IPv6 addresses from being saved in dht.dat Better handling of magnet links that contain 'tr.x=' parameters Add filtering of addresses used for uTP peer connections Fix detection of whether or not a peer supports uTP connectionsWeb Client: Fix a multi-file selection bug Fix bug where the upload and download arrows and rates would not appear for downloading torrents Fix bug when displaying the tracker list Changesįixes a crash that prevented Transmission from opening on non-English systems. The only little nag we'd have with it is that it doesn't offer as many advanced statistics as you'd find in Vuze.ĭespite no advanced statistics, Transmission is a beautiful and incredibly intuitive torrent client for Mac.įixes a crash that prevented Transmission from opening on non-English systems. Transmission manages to display all the essential information without actually seeming crowded, which is no easy feat.
Transmission is a BitTorrent client for Mac that allows you to easily and.
We really like the new interface, which blends in perfectly to the new Mac OS X Leopard. Light, fast and useful BitTorrent client.
You can also encrypt your torrent activity in case you want it to stay private. Transmission also allows you to label, filter and sort torrents by groups and total activity. The client can also organize transfers by queue order, date added, name, process. You can now filter your torrent list according to downloading, seeding, or paused. Transmission has consistently improved over time, offering many more options to view your torrents.