rTorrent

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rTorrent

The main information screen for rTorrent and libTorrent
Original author(s) Jari Sundell (a.k.a. rakshasa)
Developer(s) Jari Sundell
Stable release rTorrent 0.9.4 / libTorrent 0.13.4 (May 9, 2014) [±][1]
Preview release git-e4e73ae (May 15, 2014) [±][2]
Development status Active
Written in C++,[3] C,[3] Other[3]
Operating system Unix-like
Platform IA-32, x86-64
Size 1.3 MiB: GNU/Linux
Type BitTorrent client
License GNU GPLv2
Website rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/

rTorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client written in C++,[4] based on the libTorrent libraries for Unix, whose author's goal is "a focus on high performance and good code".[4]

Technical details

The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transferring data directly between file pages mapped to memory by the mmap() function and the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections, it claims to be able to seed at three times the speed of the official client.[4]

rTorrent packages are available for various Linux distributions and Unix-like systems, and it will compile and run on nearly every POSIX-compliant operating system, such as FreeBSD and OS X.

rTorrent uses ncurses and is suitable for use with screen; it uses commands such as Carriage return to load a torrent, after which ^S can be used to start a torrent (where ^ is shorthand for Ctrl key), backspace can be used to automatically start a torrent once it is loaded, making a subsequent issue of ^S unnecessary, ^K for stop, and ^D for pause, or if already paused or stopped, ^D again to delete the torrent.[5] It supports saving of sessions and allows the user to add and remove torrents. It also supports partial downloading of multi-file torrents. In the release of rTorrent-0.7.0 support for BitTorrent protocol encryption was also implemented.[6] PEX, DHT and initial seeding were recently implemented in rTorrent.

rTorrent can be controlled via XML-RPC over SCGI.

ruTorrent is a popular Web-based interface.

See also

References

  1. ↑ rakshasa (2014-05-09), Bumped to 0.9.4. · 6a3234e · rakshasa/rtorrent, GitHub, retrieved 2014-05-16
  2. ↑ rakshasa (2014-05-15), Set deprecated commands to be off by default. If needed use the '-D' opt... · e4e73ae · rakshasa/rtorrent, GitHub, retrieved 2014-05-16
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 rakshasa/rtorrent, GitHub, retrieved 2014-05-16
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The libTorrent and rTorrent Project, Jari Sundell, archived from the original on 2014-04-18, retrieved 2007-08-09
  5. ↑ RTorrent User Guide, Jari Sundell, archived from the original on 2014-02-09, retrieved 2009-11-25
  6. ↑ LibTorrent 0.11.0 and rTorrent 0.7.0 released, Jari Sundell, archived from the original on 2013-07-03, retrieved 2006-12-13

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