RTorrent

rTorrent

rTorrent

BitTorrent library and text-based client

"libTorrent" redirects here. Not to be confused with libtorrent.

rTorrent is a text-based BitTorrent client written in C++,[4] based on the ncurses and libTorrent (not to be confused with libtorrent) libraries for Unix, whose author's goal is "a focus on high performance and good code".[4]

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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 macOS.

rTorrent uses the ncurses library and is suitable for use with GNU Screen or Tmux; 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[when?] implemented in rTorrent.

rTorrent can be controlled via XML-RPC over SCGI.

See also

Notes

  1. GPL-2.0-or-later with OpenSSL exception

References

  1. [1]
    "Earliest known code import". GitHub. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Release 0.9.8". 19 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  3. [3]
    "rTorrent BitTorrent client", rakshasa/rtorrent repo, archived from the original on 18 October 2014, retrieved 14 July 2015 – via GitHub
  4. [4]
    Sundell, Jari, The libTorrent and rTorrent Project, archived from the original on 9 April 2014, retrieved 9 August 2007
  5. [5]
    RTorrent User Guide, Jari Sundell, archived from the original on 17 February 2014, retrieved 25 November 2009
  6. [6]
    LibTorrent 0.11.0 and rTorrent 0.7.0 released, Jari Sundell, archived from the original on 2 November 2012, retrieved 13 December 2006
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