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. -- /\ Dark><Lord \/
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