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
