rTorrent
The main information screen for rTorrent and libTorrent (rTorrent v0.9.2) | |
Original author(s) | Jari Sundell (a.k.a. rakshasa) |
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Developer(s) | Jari Sundell |
Initial release | January 25, 2005[1] |
Stable release | rTorrent 0.9.6 / libTorrent 0.13.6 (September 3, 2015 ) [±][2] |
Preview release | git-ce000851 (September 9, 2016 ) [±][3] |
Development status | Active |
Written in | C++[4] |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
Size | 1.3 MiB: GNU/Linux |
Type | BitTorrent client |
License | GNU GPLv2 |
Website |
rakshasa |
rTorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client written in C++,[5] based on the libTorrent libraries for Unix, whose author's goal is "a focus on high performance and good code".[5]
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.[5]
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 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.[6] 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.[7] 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
- ↑ Earliest known code import
- ↑ rakshasa (2015-09-03), Release 0.9.6 · rakshasa/rtorrent, GitHub, retrieved 2015-09-04
- ↑ rakshasa (2015-09-06), Merge branch 'master' of github.com:rakshasa/rtorrent · rakshasa/rtorrent@ce0008510723b6c96c86f8fe944affc84f90cd69, GitHub, retrieved 2015-09-19
- ↑ rakshasa/rtorrent, GitHub, retrieved 2015-07-14
- 1 2 3 The libTorrent and rTorrent Project, Jari Sundell, archived from the original on 9 April 2014, retrieved 2007-08-09
- ↑ RTorrent User Guide, Jari Sundell, archived from the original on 17 February 2014, retrieved 2009-11-25
- ↑ LibTorrent 0.11.0 and rTorrent 0.7.0 released, Jari Sundell, archived from the original on 2 November 2012, retrieved 2006-12-13
External links
- Official website
- rTorrent Project Page on GitHub
- libTorrent Project Page on GitHub
- rTorrent Wiki on GitHub
- rTorrent OS X Port
- rTorrent Mailing List at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- Old website at the Wayback Machine (archive index)