2008/5/25 Jesus Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, I'm using OpenBSD 4.2. > > I would like to make my OpenBSD box to download torrents and to add new > torrents by ssh so I installed rtorrent. > > I experienced a really huge memory use of the program to hash (check I > think) the actual downloads. I know this client has to do the checks but > I would like to "jail" the program on a 64 MB environment (my box have 1 > GB RAM) to make able to the machine to run a lot of things, but I can't > stop the hashes eat all my RAM, even setting ulimit -m and the > .rtorrent.rc max_memory_usage variable to 64M and less, but rtorrent > still makes my computer to allocate everything I'm using into swap an > HD, really really slow. > > I know that many simultaneous downloads using a "bittorrent-like" client > may cause system problems but I'm only doing 5 downloads. > > I have tested many different configs and always get problems, some times > the client freezes (loose download time, because it's doing nothing for > about 10 seconds every minute), some times I lost all the RAM and > browsing the net, using xchat, compile programs and stuff like that > becomes really slow. > > Anyone have found a good .rtorrent.rc configuration to make > freeze/ram-use dissapear? > > Thanks for your time. -Jesus > >
I have been using rtorrent with no ram max and it never took over 30 megs, that was running up to 30 torrents at a time, how many torrents are you running at one time? have you set any limits on IO? perhaps IO is backing up into the ram? i know my windows client does that. -- -Lawrence
