Re: [gentoo-user] Ktorrent using a lot of memory recently

[computers with nikita nikita]

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

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 11:07 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>