Last night on Prodigem, the master torrent seeding process died, so I used the opportunity to upgrade to BitTorrent 4.0.0. What a difference. It looks like Bram fixed it so that when you are starting up multiple torrents at the same time, instead of them all trying to resume simultaneously, it instead starts them one at a time. For Prodigem this is huge, because with the previous version it would try to simultaneously compare hashes on over 100 torrents which would cause me to start thrashing and completely hose the server until the startup completed. Better yet, 4.0.0 caches these hashes so I now only have to pay for this startup cost once instead of each time I'm forced to restart btlaunchmany (not often).

A bit of bad, though, which I haven't really explored. With 4.0.0, the output statistics formatting has changed so I'll have to update Torrentocracy to handle this. It also seems like these statistics no longer include the download time remaining which would be a bummer.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 05:33 PM in software | Comments (0)