On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 10:34 -0700, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > Mark C. Ballew wrote: > > One suggestion I'd like to toss in is that you shouldn't run multiple > > btdownloadcurses instances. The issue is that, while two or three > > copies isn't bad, four or more starts to eat up a lot of memory and > > CPU time. As someone who always something on the "bt-burner" > > downloading, I use btlaunchmanycurses. > > > > Put in the .torrent's in question into a staging directory. I call > > mine "btbatch". Start btlaunchmanycurses with what ever arguements you > > usually use and the location of btbatch. When a torrent finishes, > > simply remove the .torrent file and btlaunchmany will remove the > > download from it's queue. To add more torrents, just copy them into > > the btbatch directory and they'll be picked up. > > I looked at btlaunchmanycurses, and it looked pretty cool, but the > manpage and documentation are severely lacking. So maybe you can answer > my question: > > I know that you can add torrent files to the directory at runtime and > btlaunchmany* will periodically rescan the directory for new torrents > and, if found, add them. But if you remove a .torrent from the > directory, will it stop seeding the torrent? Or do I have to kill the > whole session to stop seeding the latest gentoo/sarge iso?
Yes. Also, if you have a dead tracker, removing the corresponding .torrent file will remove it from launchmany. Mark -- Mark C. Ballew Reno, Nevada [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 AIM: pdx110
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