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I'd suggest looking at the "advanced" section of the preferences. Lots of way to limit/expand memory use etc. You really should also check all the other Qbit preferences, there are a lot. For example you can limit number of I/O threads, block multiple connections from the same host (this prevents some known abuses related to your' client. |
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--"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." Tommy Douglas |
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Sep 8, 2022, 16:24 by rdalek1967@×××××.com: |
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> Mateusz Okulus wrote: |
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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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>> On my pc the limit is 2^63. But this is max files for kernel, which is |
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>> different for max files per user and max files per process. |
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>> For example if I run: |
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>> $ grep 'Limit\|open' /proc/$(pgrep qbittorrent | head -1)/limits |
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>> Limit Soft Limit Hard Limit Units |
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>> Max open files 524288 524288 files |
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>> 524288 = 2^19 |
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>> QBittorrent increases it's process limit to hard limit. With 10 TB of |
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>> torrents it's hard to tell if it's a bug or just 500k files is not |
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>> enough, I'd say it's probably the latter. |
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>> It seems you can change the default hard limit in |
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>> /etc/security/limits.conf |
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>> For example: |
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>> # 2^24, increased from 2^19 |
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>> * hard nofile 16777216 |
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>> Then after reloging: |
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>> $ grep 'Limit\|open' /proc/$(pgrep qbittorrent | head -1)/limits |
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>> Limit Soft Limit Hard Limit Units |
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>> Max open files 16777216 16777216 files |
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>> So this works, at least for me. |
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>> Check also limits.conf man page. |
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>> Regards, |
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>> mmokulus |
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> It appears the change I made wasn't what was needed. I took a nap, |
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> after doing today what I used to do on Friday, which involves going to |
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> Doctor, getting shots, then shopping around town etc etc. Anyway, I |
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> woke up to Qbittorrent being gone. It crashed at some point. In the |
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> notification thingy, it had a few of the file open errors again. So, I |
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> ran some of the commands you posted, my hard limit was set to 4096. I |
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> whipped out my calculator and doubled it. I set it in the limits.conf |
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> file like so: |
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> root@fireball / # cat /etc/security/limits.conf | grep nofile |
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> # - nofile - max number of open file descriptors |
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> * hard nofile 8192 |
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> root@fireball / # |
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> I logged out and back in. I ran the command you shared and it was |
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> indeed set to the new amount. I'm going to upgrade qbittorrent to the |
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> new version again and test it some more. |
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> Thanks much for the help. Maybe this will fix it. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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