Hungry bittorrent

[William Hooper]

Ovidiu Lixandru wrote:
> Hi.
> Following a few package updates (Core, Extras et al), bittorrent started
> behaving strangely. btdownloadcurses starts OK, begins downloading and,
> after a few minutes, both the CPU and mem usage go through the roof. Left
> alone, it fills both the physical memory and the swap, eventually bringing
> down the machine. I've tried btdownloadheadless, different torrent files,
> still the same issue. Some versions:
>
>
> [ovidiu at ovidiu ~]$ rpm -q python bittorrent
> python-2.3.4-13.1
> bittorrent-4.1.1-2.1.fc3.rf

Your version of bittorrent comes from the "RPMForge" group of repos.  IIRC
there has been some discussion in the Freshrpms mailing list about this
issue.

http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/freshrpms-list

-- 
William Hooper