Rtorrent hangs

Rtorrent hangs

johanfa 03 Oct 2007 06:51

I run dtach and rtorrent on my Mybook WE 1. At first rtorrent where stable, but seems to have gotten more and more unstable. Now I can run it only a few minutes before the process hangs and goes to D or Ds+ status, which can not be killed!.
Has anyone else got this problem? (I have upgraded to the latest stable release of both libtorrent and rtorrent, and I've been trying running it both as root and regular user and both in a dtach-socket and in a regular terminal. No difference what so ever.

Re: Rtorrent hangs

jan2001 03 Oct 2007 08:07

i've got the same problem!!

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obenturk 03 Oct 2007 14:36

I have the same problem but it only occurs when torrents are greater than 700 mb… I download 5 x 700 mb divx no hangs but when I tried to download 1.4 gb divx it hanged… I think this is related with file size and rtorrent issue not mbwe…

Re: Rtorrent hangs

johanfa 04 Oct 2007 05:23

Yeah that seams right! I too have some big files in my list…. But the question then is if this is an mybook-problem or an rtorrent-problem ?

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anandus 04 Oct 2007 09:56

It looks like it's hanging during the hashing of larger files, no?

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sTs 08 Oct 2007 08:55

that is where mine hangs (hashing large files) … but as that is all I download I have ceased trying. would be great if someone could work out what the issue is and have a crack at fixing it or if there are any other torrent clients out there that work ok that would be cool too.

Re: Rtorrent hangs

johanfa 10 Oct 2007 13:41

Here comes a small tip for the Rtorrent-issue…. it seem to work … at least my client hasnt hung yet…with quite a few gigs downloaded….
1. Clear your list, empty the client so no downloads are active.
2. Run rtorrent in a dtach/screen-socket, and never ever shut the client down.
3. Download whatever you want without the hanging!

Seems like as said before in this thread the issue is when restarting the client… so just skip that step and it seems like you'll be fine… ;)

Re: Rtorrent hangs

anandus 10 Oct 2007 16:37

I tried, but it still hangs on big (>1Gb) torrents with me unfortunately :(

johanfa, can you try your method with a big torrent to see if it does or does not hang in your case?
And what rtorrent build are you running? :)

Re: Rtorrent hangs

johanfa 12 Oct 2007 07:18

I suppose you mean "try with a big file"? the torrents are never especially big…. ~50k ?

well… eventually my rtorrent hung too…. so my sollution weren't that good…. keep searching …..

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Re: Rtorrent hangs

anandus 23 Oct 2007 18:59

\o/

Apparently with the newest libtorrent it doesn't hang anymore! :D

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johanfa 23 Oct 2007 19:12

And which version would that be ??

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anandus 23 Oct 2007 19:40

11.8 :)

Re: Rtorrent hangs

johanfa 24 Oct 2007 06:53

ahh…will try that!

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obenturk 24 Oct 2007 21:39

I ve tried and hanging more frequently… :((

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johanfa 25 Oct 2007 14:57

hm thats bad….. I've tried to lower all values in the config file…. lower them much! will see if that helps…..

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johanfa 26 Oct 2007 15:21

Well….nothing seems to help … that library upgrade did nothing … and niether did my attempts with lowering the values….this sucks!!

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ruph 11 Nov 2007 12:42

Have you tried any other torrent client? I wonder if any other works or is this a generic mybook problem…

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johanfa 12 Nov 2007 12:20

I have tried ctorrent, it works, but its much more primitive….

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lasse 12 Nov 2007 18:42

I tested Rtorrent with a lot of diff settings with a 30gb torrent and it hangs a lot while hashing so i switched to transmission witch is fairly easy to install and the performance is great.

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WishCow 24 Dec 2007 01:42

How did you kill the process? I can't even reboot the WDMB with the hung process,
no matter what I try, kill, killall, reboot, front button, nothing works. Can I just unplug the cable?

Re: Rtorrent hangs

johanfa 24 Dec 2007 11:05

Well.. it should work with /sbin/reboot if you're root… else… unplug the cable… and dont use rtorrent any more… now there IS a good alternative!! (Transmission, see separate thread..) :) Merry Xmas

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WishCow 24 Dec 2007 15:47

No unfortunately not even /sbin/reboot works, the command runs fine but no actual reboot takes place.
I have followed the transmission topic, it looks too complicated to me, but I guess I don't have any other choice.

Re: Rtorrent hangs

2t24tasdf 09 Jan 2008 06:10

I did an strace on my rtorrent and it kept hanging on the madvise() syscall (seems to be a kernel bug) so i disabled it in libtorrent and everything is working great!
After you run ./configure on libtorrent, just edit the config.h and comment out the #define USE_MADVISE 1 line

Last edited on 09 Jan 2008 06:10 by 2t24tasdf Show more

Re: Rtorrent hangs

blorbx 16 Jan 2008 18:49

any hope of using this fix for an optware installation? or will i have to install from source?

Re: Rtorrent hangs

bzhou 16 Jan 2008 19:44

r7535 | bzhou | 2008-01-09 09:58:06 -0800 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008) | 1 line
libtorrent: disable madvise() based on http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-21733#post-88873

That happened between 0.11.9-1 and 0.11.9-2

Cheers,

Re: Rtorrent hangs

makkeru 23 Mar 2008 11:50

Had massive problems with rTorrent on my MB but after commenting out the #define USE_MADVISE 1 it works like a charm.
Well worth the compile-time ;)

Thanks alot for the help guys!

Re: Rtorrent hangs

fexel 20 Apr 2012 07:57

Please post step by step tutorial how to
edit the config.h and comment out the #define USE_MADVISE 1 line

Thank you.