I’m curious to know if anybody else finds their computer behaving sluggishly or erratically when downloading torrents.
For the record: I use transmission on a 2020 imac and have tried other clients to little avial. A virus and/or activity check doesn’t reveal anything untoward going on in the background.
I’m not sure what’s going on, but torrenting is either resource intensive (possibly RAM) or writing to the harddrive results in poor performance overall. Or maybe its something else (like my vpn draining resources)? Either way, when I torrent I might as well walk away from my computer because that’s all it seems it wants to do, and even then its performance remains erratic.
Question: does your iMac have a hard drive or an SSD? My mom still uses our old iMac, and whenever the hard drive is being used extensively (while downloading something, for example), the whole computer will be really sluggish.
2020 is the year they finally switched the hybrid fusion drive for a proper SSD, so if OP is correct this shouldn’t be a problem.
And yes, it’s absurd that Apple sold a desktop for over $1000 in 2019 that didn’t have a SSD boot drive.