Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Schaefer
Hi Michael, On 24.11.2009 00:41, Michael K. Smith wrote: We had similar crashes with PF, although not related to rtorrent specifically. However, we use the following sysctl values that have helped stability and performance immensely. net.inet.carp.preempt=1 net.inet.carp.arpbalance=0

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Schaefer
On 22.11.2009 23:11, cpghost wrote: Have you tried to run rtorrent and the router on two different FreeBSD machines? Does it lock the router, or does it crash the rtorrent box only, or both? even though i haven't been asked i might want to answer ;) Since my box really exclusively does

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Schaefer
On 22.11.2009 23:11, cpghost wrote: Have you tried to run rtorrent and the router on two different FreeBSD machines? Does it lock the router, or does it crash the rtorrent box only, or both? even though i haven't been asked i might want to answer ;) Since my box really exclusively does

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-23 Thread Michael K. Smith
On 11/23/09 2:28 PM, Michael Schaefer utf...@googlemail.com wrote: On 22.11.2009 23:11, cpghost wrote: Have you tried to run rtorrent and the router on two different FreeBSD machines? Does it lock the router, or does it crash the rtorrent box only, or both? even though i haven't been asked

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-22 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:08:53PM -0800, Peter Kieser wrote: This problem has been going on for at least the past 2 years. I've had the exact same issue with rtorrent locking up or restarting machines running FreeBSD, regardless of the hardware used. All I can say is that the machine that

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Schaefer
well.. i think this is really something to escalate now since there is obviously a problem. today again i tried a little bit and as told, the isntance B crashes the system reproducible. In my opinion something like this should really be examined further, since a userspace program shouldn't kill

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-19 Thread utf...@googlemail.com
Hello everybody, I encountered same problems and am kinda glad to see I'm not alone. I use FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p8 (GENERIC) on a VIA EPIA board (800MHz C3). This box for the moment does nothing but torrent. I use two instances of rtorrent. Each with an own user and in its own screen session.

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Schaefer
Hello everybody, I encountered same problems and am kinda glad to see I'm not alone. I use FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p8 (GENERIC) on a VIA EPIA board (800MHz C3). This box for the moment does nothing but torrent. I use two instances of rtorrent. Each with an own user and in its own screen session.

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Kieser
Hello, This problem has been going on for at least the past 2 years. I've had the exact same issue with rtorrent locking up or restarting machines running FreeBSD, regardless of the hardware used. I did not have any sort of firewall installed (neither pf, or ipfw). If I loaded up rtorrent

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 03:20:20PM -0800, Henrik Hudson wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, cpghost wrote: I'm experiencing frequent crashes on my soekris net4801 home router for some months now, and I'm wondering if it could be some kind of pf-related bug similar to this on OpenBSD:

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-10-23 Thread Kalle Møller
Afaik the problem with fillling the router with torrent traffic as opposed to a single host, is that the the many connections to the many host fill up the (yes and this i don't know so I'll just say router). So Its not the torrent traffic itself.. its that you have a lot of packets going a million

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-10-22 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, cpghost wrote: Hi, could a resource leak or bug in pf(4) crash a RELENG_7 router (as of Oct 6th)? I'm experiencing frequent crashes on my soekris net4801 home router for some months now, and I'm wondering if it could be some kind of pf-related bug similar to this on

rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-10-21 Thread cpghost
Hi, could a resource leak or bug in pf(4) crash a RELENG_7 router (as of Oct 6th)? I'm experiencing frequent crashes on my soekris net4801 home router for some months now, and I'm wondering if it could be some kind of pf-related bug similar to this on OpenBSD: