Re: [gentoo-user] qbittorrent crashes after to many files open error

[Lee <ny6p01@gmail.com>]

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Divine punishment perhaps?

Lee 😎

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022, 10:26 PM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> As some know, I discovered torrentting a while back.  It has caused
> issues ever since.  LOL  I recently upgraded qbittorrent.  Other than
> having to limit some speed settings since it would make my desktop
> response slow, it has worked OK, better than ktorrent at least.  Then a
> couple days ago, perhaps related to a upgrade, it would crash.  In the
> notifications I would find a error like below.  I have changed the names
> to protect the innocent.  ;-)
>
> An I/O error occurred for torrent 'ABCDEF'.
> Reason: ABCDEF file_open (/home/dale/Desktop/Videos/ABCDEF error: Too
> many open files
>
>
> I did a google search and found out more info which lead me to this
> eventually:
>
>
> https://www.tecmint.com/increase-set-open-file-limits-in-linux/
>
> Then this:
>
> root@fireball / # sysctl fs.file-max
> fs.file-max = 3289952
> root@fireball / # sysctl -w fs.file-max=32899520
> fs.file-max = 32899520
> root@fireball / # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> 32899520
>
>
> So, I increased the limit on open files by a factor of ten, I added a
> zero on the end.  It was easy enough and didn't require a calculator or
> other fancy maths.  Question is, is this a better fix or could it just
> be qbittorrent itself having issues?  Could there be more to this or
> something else causing this error?
>
> I was using qbittorrent-4.4.5 but downgraded to qbittorrent-4.4.4.  I'm
> hoping one or the other will fix this crashing issue.  It did only start
> after the upgrade but could be a coincidence to I guess.
>
>
> By the way, the 10TB drive I bought a couple weeks or so ago, well, this
> is it now.
>
> /dev/mapper/10tb           9.1T  8.7T  345G  97% /mnt/10tb
>
>
> The 14TB is supposed to be here this weekend.  I have really got to
> create a solution to this.  My current plan, make the 14TB my backup
> drive.  Put the 10TB in my rig, for now.  It's getting full too.  ROFL
> I could cut off the internet I guess.  ROFLMBO
>
>
> Thoughts on the files open error?  Qbittorrent crashing?  Anyone else
> ran into this before?  Proper solution?  Better solution?
>
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>
>

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