Comments on: rTorrent Linux ncurses torrent client with protocol encryption

By: James

James — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:31:02 +0000

Great article. I’ve been looking at niche sites recently like thevault.bz which was rubbish! They make you jump through hoops to get an account claiming loads of exclusive content but you can get everything from the main torrent sites like pirate bay. thevault.bz is a total waste of time!

By: jeff cobb

jeff cobb — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:14:30 +0000

I am running rtorrent right now on a Linksys NSLU2 I reburned with Debian this weekend and it seems to be working just fine on practically no memory or CPU. I can park the slug (NSLU2) and an external drive on a bookshelf, scping torrent files to its watch folder when I want it to get something…too fun.

By: H2O

H2O — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:26:28 +0000

oh yeah, and i also have rtorrent running as a daemon, so it’s there 24/7.

By: H2O

H2O — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:24:17 +0000

well i sometimes download around 3-4 gigs a night, and i’ve also been seeding some tv shows lately (upload around 1 gb a day). i know this isn’t huge traffic, but rtorrent never caused me one problem. and i have a whole 256 megs of ram…

By: CL

CL — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:09:53 +0000

It is very good with CPU-usage and starts with very little used memory, but as you use it, the RAM usage creeps up and up and up. If you start a few torrents in the evening, your system will be near-frozen in the morning unless you have lots of RAM in it or stick to tiny torrents. Placing external memory limits on it (ulimit) results in errors.

By: SimpleSimon

SimpleSimon — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:56:35 +0000

This is on Debian etch (4.0r1)…

debian:/shared/downloads# dpkg -i libtorrent10_0.11.8-1_i386.deb rtorrent_0.7.7-1_i386.deb
(Reading database … 61820 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libtorrent10 0.11.8-1 (using libtorrent10_0.11.8-1_i386.deb) …
Unpacking replacement libtorrent10 …
Preparing to replace rtorrent 0.7.7-1 (using rtorrent_0.7.7-1_i386.deb) …
Unpacking replacement rtorrent …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libtorrent10:
libtorrent10 depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1); however:
Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:4.1.1-21.
libtorrent10 depends on libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8e-1); however:
Version of libssl0.9.8 on system is 0.9.8c-4.
libtorrent10 depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1); however:
Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.1.1-21.
dpkg: error processing libtorrent10 (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rtorrent:
rtorrent depends on libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2-1); however:
Version of libcurl3 on system is 7.15.5-1etch1.
rtorrent depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1); however:
Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:4.1.1-21.
rtorrent depends on libkrb53 (>= 1.6.dfsg.1); however:
Version of libkrb53 on system is 1.4.4-7etch2.
rtorrent depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.6); however:
Version of libncurses5 on system is 5.5-5.
rtorrent depends on libssh2-0; however:
Package libssh2-0 is not installed.
rtorrent depends on libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8e-1); however:
Version of libssl0.9.8 on system is 0.9.8c-4.
rtorrent depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1); however:
Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.1.1-21.
rtorrent depends on libtorrent10; however:
Package libtorrent10 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing rtorrent (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libtorrent10
rtorrent

debian:/shared/downloads# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 1 00:47:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
debian:/shared/downloads#

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By: mypapit

mypapit — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:04:35 +0000

http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=rtorrent rtorrent package is not available for 'Lenny' yet. You have to compile rtorrent from its sourcecode in order to use it

By: Niato

Niato — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:18:39 +0000

Hi mypapit:
I use “lenny”, the current testing version.
this is the dependency error:

“libtorrent10 depende de libc6 (>= 2.5); sin embargo:
La versiÃ³n de `libc6′ en el sistema es 2.3.6.ds1-13.”

thanx

By: mypapit

mypapit — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:16:50 +0000

That’s strange, the package should work for i386 Debian 4.0 (Etch). May I know what is your Debian release?

By: Niato

Niato — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:54:50 +0000

The debian package have dependency problems with libc6 version

By: mypapit

mypapit — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:56:34 +0000

lowks: agreed. I prefer ktorrent over azureus mostly because azureus is too resource intensive for my other applications.

By: lowks

lowks — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:46:51 +0000

For bang of the buck I use ktorrent. It’s really shining now and it’s the only one that I can decent speeds on ( sometimes still able to go up to 100k++). It comes with a nifty web interface for remote access to boot !

By: mypapit

mypapit — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:00:48 +0000

Downloaded a 490MB size file, top speed was around 65kb/s on 512K streamyx line – it averaged around 30-45kb/s

By: kucau

kucau — Thu, 03 May 2007 07:57:25 +0000

ermm , can it really bypass streamyx traffic shaping?. whats the max speed u can get for a good torrent files with good seeds ?