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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.13 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <92d181be-def8-7dab-f687-e5e76fcaeac1@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 417c0c4c-1ca9-4c54-a100-11e03a3044f8 X-Archives-Hash: 1b1e781fc18e32ade84f48f77ed16c8d ralfconn wrote: > On 8/28/22 14:24, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> As most know, I got a much faster internet and I use torrent software, >> quite a lot.  I was using Ktorrent and it was OK but it was slow.  I >> started using Qbittorrent and like it better in a way but it has its own >> speed issues and both affect my desktop response.  I did some googling >> and used top to figure out that they are using a LOT of memory for >> cache.  At times, it uses well over half my memory just for cache.  It >> also gets to a point where it is using swap even tho I have swappiness >> set to 1, basically use swap only to prevent a crash from out of memory >> problems.  We all know how slow swap use can make things.  As it is, I >> reduced the number of active files which is not something I want to do. >> If I receive, I like to send as well.  After all, someone sent to me as >> well.  What I would like to do is limit the amount of memory torrent >> software can use.  I don't know exactly how to do that tho.  It's not >> something I've ever done. >> >> Is this something I do on the command line or a setting is some file >> somewhere?  I don't even know where to start on this.  By the way, I'm >> maxed out at 32GBs of memory for this mobo.  So adding memory isn't a >> option.  Is there even a mobo that has a 64GB option??? :/ > > Not really an answer to your question but here I never had > speed/responsiveness/memory issues with transmission (Xfce, 16Gb RAM, > 50Mbit/s network bandwidth ): > > [I] net-p2p/transmission > >      Available versions:  3.00-r1^t (~)3.00-r4^t **9999*l^t > {appindicator cli gtk lightweight mbedtls nls qt5 systemd test web} >      Installed versions:  3.00-r4^t(01:14:38 PM 05/29/2022)(cli nls > -appindicator -gtk -lightweight -mbedtls -qt5 -systemd -test) >      Homepage:            https://transmissionbt.com/ >      Description:         A fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client > > I use it without GUI (-gtk -qt5) because I find the web interface just > fine. Also, being server-based it runs regardless of who's logged into > the PC, which is a plus here. > > raffaele I may look into that.  Just to see if it is even better than Ktorrent and Qbittorrent.  Never know.  I may like it like Mikey.  lol  It's a old TV commercial.  I'm not sure what happened but it started acting better.  One, I did remove a lot of items that were just sitting there.  Then I removed some that had a high share ratio, I did a lot of sharing.  There was also a update to QBT but at first it didn't help any.  It was after a few restarts that it seemed to improve.  I did notice that at one point it was uploading around 60 or 70MB/sec and desktop response slowed some but not as bad as before.  I guess I need to limit what it uploads a bit.  I know how to do that.  So, I think the update improved things but took a few restarts to kick in or something.  Removing some unused files helped too.  I wonder if I could use torrent on a Raspberry Pi?  :-)  lol  By the way, I notice this in df and mount: root@fireball / # df -h | grep group cgroup_root                 10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup root@fireball / # mount | grep group cgroup_root on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755) openrc on /sys/fs/cgroup/openrc type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/lib/rc/sh/cgroup-release-agent.sh,name=openrc) none on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100) portal on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100) root@fireball / # I guess cgroups is enabled but I never touched any of it.  Only read a few threads on here about it.  Thanks to all. Dale :-)  :-)