On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Hi Tom.
> Three ideas; you ran out'a disk space or ram/swap or failed to
> limit upload rate. Another consideration is you need to be very
> careful on movie torrent sites. Most are uploaded (the torrent
> file) by really clueless Winblow$ users. Some are redirects to
> WaReZ sites. Some are malicious, not a worry for Linux, as they
> are targeted to fsck'up Win$ux boxes.
I've got 800 megs of swap, and 25 gigs of HD space free on /home. I also had
the upload rate limited to 6.
> Using these cautions, I haven't encountered too many bad
> torrents.. yet. But if seeds disappear, a bad torrent could still
> tryin keep messin with you. IMO, torrents are the least
> desirable way to get movies. Without the 'bad' problems, some
> are only an archive of corrupt .rars, with no par files for
> repair. Avoid 'cam' movies too. Many Windoze user torrents are
> erroneously encoded (aspect ratio), and you'll need to use
> mencoder to fix 'em.
I agree here - 99% of cam movies suck royally. :-)
> So next time you try a torrent, monitor memory use (top), and
> monitor the d/l directory's partition for disk space (df) from
> early on. 'kdirstat' is also useful for this. Also check your
> ~/.xsession-errors file to make sure it's not inflating rapidly.
I'll keep all these suggestions in mind, thanks much.
Don't know though - after all this trouble I think I'll just buy the darned
DVD. <grin>
> If you want further opinion, you'll need to send me the
> torrent file.
Thats just it - I don't have it - I believe it was the odd file that
reiserfsck kept deleting, when --rebuild-tree ran.
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