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Content-Language: en-US To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <464b2b22-6c7c-6dd1-c0b0-b4905222943f@gmail.com> From: ralfconn In-Reply-To: <464b2b22-6c7c-6dd1-c0b0-b4905222943f@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.20595 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo X-Archives-Salt: fa10fcaf-471b-47e6-84cb-05e3707a4137 X-Archives-Hash: 86c42347b9e450d17d58a84217bf0261 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