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Divine punishment perhaps? |
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Lee 😎 |
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On Wed, Sep 7, 2022, 10:26 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> As some know, I discovered torrentting a while back. It has caused |
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> issues ever since. LOL I recently upgraded qbittorrent. Other than |
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> having to limit some speed settings since it would make my desktop |
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> response slow, it has worked OK, better than ktorrent at least. Then a |
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> couple days ago, perhaps related to a upgrade, it would crash. In the |
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> notifications I would find a error like below. I have changed the names |
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> to protect the innocent. ;-) |
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> An I/O error occurred for torrent 'ABCDEF'. |
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> Reason: ABCDEF file_open (/home/dale/Desktop/Videos/ABCDEF error: Too |
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> many open files |
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> I did a google search and found out more info which lead me to this |
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> eventually: |
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> https://www.tecmint.com/increase-set-open-file-limits-in-linux/ |
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> Then this: |
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> root@fireball / # sysctl fs.file-max |
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> fs.file-max = 3289952 |
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> root@fireball / # sysctl -w fs.file-max=32899520 |
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> fs.file-max = 32899520 |
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> root@fireball / # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max |
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> 32899520 |
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> So, I increased the limit on open files by a factor of ten, I added a |
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> zero on the end. It was easy enough and didn't require a calculator or |
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> other fancy maths. Question is, is this a better fix or could it just |
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> be qbittorrent itself having issues? Could there be more to this or |
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> something else causing this error? |
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> I was using qbittorrent-4.4.5 but downgraded to qbittorrent-4.4.4. I'm |
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> hoping one or the other will fix this crashing issue. It did only start |
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> after the upgrade but could be a coincidence to I guess. |
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> By the way, the 10TB drive I bought a couple weeks or so ago, well, this |
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> is it now. |
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> /dev/mapper/10tb 9.1T 8.7T 345G 97% /mnt/10tb |
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> The 14TB is supposed to be here this weekend. I have really got to |
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> create a solution to this. My current plan, make the 14TB my backup |
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> drive. Put the 10TB in my rig, for now. It's getting full too. ROFL |
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> I could cut off the internet I guess. ROFLMBO |
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> Thoughts on the files open error? Qbittorrent crashing? Anyone else |
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> ran into this before? Proper solution? Better solution? |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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