[Libtorrent-devel] rTorrent crashes with many torrent-files (fbsd7.2, zfs, amd64)

[Josef Drexler]

On Oct 4, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote:
> Josef Drexler wrote:
>> On Oct 4, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote:
>>>     rtorrent: PollKQueue::modify() error: Bad file descriptor
>
>> See ticket 1581: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/1581
>
>> There's a discussion of the bug and near the end there's a patch that
>> seems to be working. Alternatively limit rtorrent to open no more  
>> than
>> about 500 filehandles (counting both files and sockets).
>
> I believe that this patch does not always help.
> Bottleneck - curl, which takes the system limits on sockets and files.


Possible, though libcurl shouldn't use more than one socket per HTTP  
connection, and you can limit those with the max_open_http directive.  
If libcurl doesn't properly close its sockets or something, try a  
different version.

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Josef Drexler
josef at ttdpatch.net