On Friday 03 March 2006 13:09, Nick Rout wrote:
> It is not doing much other than running torrentflux, a web based
> frontend to the bittornado bittorrent client, which also involves mysql
> and apache.
>
> a lot of the time it ticks along at a load average of 0.2-0.5. However
> sometimes it shoots up to 5, 10, even more, for a while and after a
> while shrinks back down to the stable level. During this time it becomes
> pretty unresponsive. It is annoying me.
I've been running torrentflux for quite some time and just recently switched
the machine it was running on. It used to be on a Celeron 466 with 488MB RAM
and it ran fine. It's now on a PIII 600 with 192MB RAM and it does the same
thing you describe above.
It seemed to me to be mostly when I was downloading large (GB+) torrents which
were left open for a long time (days+).
Those python processes eat up massive amounts of memory after a while. I
wouldn't be surprised if there was a memory leak somewhere because I added a
512MB swap file on the PIII box and still ran out of memory.
I have since flagged torrentflux and gone back to using screen and
btdownloadcurses. This seems to have helped things but I haven't really been
monitoring it that much.
I was using the bittornado bundled with torrentflux, may the problem was in
there...
HTH
hads
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