Howdy all,
I been using Ktorrent for several months now. When I started using it,
it used only a few hundred megabytes of ram and was running for a week
or so without a restart. It rarely even showed up in top when sorted by memory usage. Certainly true when several Firefox browser profiles are
open and running. Recently tho, it is using a lot more memory. Once it
was several GBs and I had to close and restart Ktorrent to clear it up.
It runs with a more normal memory usage for a while but then starts
building up again. Once I get something downloaded, I copy it from the folder it downloads to over to other directories where I rename and
organize things. Only active downloads remain listed within Ktorrent.
This is from top. This is after less than a day of run time, likely
around 12 hours or so.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
COMMAND
5604 dale 20 0 3262804 1.0g 81648 S 0.0 3.3 45:40.05 /usr/bin/ktorrent
This is my version and USE flags.
[ebuild R ] net-p2p/ktorrent-21.08.3:5::gentoo USE="bwscheduler downloadorder handbook infowidget ipfilter logviewer magnetgenerator mediaplayer scanfolder stats upnp webengine zeroconf -debug -rss
-shutdown -test" 0 KiB
Entries in /etc/portage for ktorrent:
root@fireball / # grep -r ktorrent /etc/portage/ /etc/portage/package.use/package.use:net-p2p/ktorrent -search -shutdown
-rss
root@fireball / #
I checked and I'm on the same version as I have been using since I
installed Ktorrent. I suspect the problem may be a dependency of
Ktorrent and not Ktorrent itself, even tho it shows Ktorrent using the memory. I'm not quite sure how that could be but since Ktorrent itself hasn't changed, well, makes me wonder.
Anyone else having this problem or have a idea of the cause? Could it
be a USE flag that I can disable? I can disable things I don't use if needed. Is it something Ktorrent depends on that is causing this?
Ideas? Thoughts?
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
I dont use Ktorrent, While what you are describing sounds like a
memory leak,
have you considered it could be the active downloads connecting to a
large number of peers? Or it could be it building a very large dht
index (not sure what the proper terminology for this is)
You should double check your settings and make sure everything has
sane limits
I dont use Ktorrent, While what you are describing sounds like a
memory leak,
have you considered it could be the active downloads connecting to a
large number of peers? Or it could be it building a very large dht
index (not sure what the proper terminology for this is)
You should double check your settings and make sure everything has
sane limits
If a tool is not working the way it should I chuck it and find one that
does. There are many good torrent apps out there.
I recommend qbittorrent (its qt so it should theme nicely with kde),
it works really well IMO
On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 2:09 PM ny6p01 <ny6p01@gmail.com <mailto:ny6p01@gmail.com>> wrote:
If a tool is not working the way it should I chuck it and find one
that does. There are many good torrent apps out there.
computers with nikita nikita wrote:
I recommend qbittorrent (its qt so it should theme nicely with kde),
it works really well IMO
On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 2:09 PM ny6p01 <ny6p01@gmail.com <mailto:ny6p01@gmail.com>> wrote:
If a tool is not working the way it should I chuck it and find one
that does. There are many good torrent apps out there.
I'm happy with Ktorrent. I just want to figure out why it is using so
much memory. I did look at qbittorrent tho, screenshots anyway. It
seems to work the same way and even looks the same as Ktorrent. Given I
have Ktorrent already set up and a lengthy list of files for it to
download, I'm not really wanting to switch. If I can't figure out the
memory leak or it gets worse, I may have to switch later on.
Question just in case I do have to switch. I click on links in Firefox
to download torrents. Right now it opens the files/imports/whatever to Ktorrent. Can I do the same with qbittorrent? From the looks of it, I suspect it works that way, and suspect other GUI software does as well.
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
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