Deluge Forum

Hi

I am running Deluge daemon off my Raspberry pi as a torrent box with my computer (Windows 8) controlling it via SSH. But there is this torrent I want to download with my pi. It has a total size of 1.26 TB and tons of files. I only want a few files off that torrent though, but every time I try to load it on Deluge, it crashes and crashes the pi as well. Every time this happens I have to either restart the pi or deluge. Sometimes I even have to reformat the SD card itself since it doesn't respond to my computer's SSH anymore. Is there anything I can do to solve this?

It sounds like deluge may end up allocating too much memory for the PI, perhaps causing it to swap onto a slow medium, essentially stalling the whole machine.

perhaps you could test this theory by inspecting its memory usage as you add the torrent in "top" or "htop".

How large is the .torrent file itself? At a minimum, libtorrent will need that amount of space (and a bit more if there are many files). I'm guessing deluge perhaps creates its own data structures duplicating the filenames as well, which may cause it to exceed the physical RAM you have.