rtorrent 1 June 25th, 2005 BitTorrent client for ncurses rtorrent a BitTorrent client for ncurses rtorrent -h -o key1=opt1,... URL | FILE rtorrent is a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library. The client and library is written in C++ with emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to those found in GUI based clients in an ncurses client. ^q Initiate shutdown, press again to force the shutdown and skip sending the stop signal to trackers. up | down Select item. <- Go back to the previous screen. a | s | d Increase the upload throttle by 1/5/50 KB. A | S | D Increase the download throttle by 1/5/50 KB. z | x | c Decrease the upload throttle by 1/5/50 KB. Z | X | C Decrease the download throttle by 1/5/50 KB. -> View download. ^s Start download. ^d Stop an active download, or remove a stopped download. ^r Initiate hash check of torrent. backspace Add torrent using an URL or file path. Use tab to view directory content and do auto-complete. l View log. Exit by pressing the space-bar. -> View torrent file list. Use the space-bar to change the file priority and * to change the priority of all files. 1 | 2 Adjust max uploads. 3 | 4 Adjust min peers. 5 | 6 Adjust max peers. o Display the tracker list. Cycle the trackers in a group with the space-bar. p View peer and torrent information. t | T Initiate tracker request. Use capital T to force the request, ignoring the "min interval" set by the tracker. -b a.b.c.d Bind listening socket and outgoing connections to this network interface address. -d directory Set the default download directory. Defaults to "./". -h Display help and exit. -i a.b.c.d Set the address reported to the tracker. -o key1=opt1,... Set any number of options, see the SETTINGS section. The options given here override the resource files. -p a-b Try to open a listening port in the range a up to and including b. -s directory Session management will be enabled and the torrent files for all open downloads will be stored in this directory. Only one instance of rtorrent should be used with each session directory, though at the moment no locking is done. An empty string will disable the session directory. max_peers = value Set the maximum number of peers to allow in each download. min_peers = value Set the minimum number of peers to try to connect to in each download. max_uploads = value Set the maximum number of simultaneous uploads per download. download_rate = KB Set the maximum global download rate. upload_rate = KB Set the maximum global upload rate. bind = a.b.c.d Bind listening socket and outgoing connections to this network interface address. ip = a.b.c.d Set the address reported to the tracker. port_range = a-b Try to open a listening port in the range a up to and including b. port_random = yes | no Open the listening port at a random position in the port range. check_hash = yes | no Perform hash check on finished downloads. directory = directory Set the default download directory. Defaults to "./". session = directory Session management will be enabled and the torrent files for all open downloads will be stored in this directory. Only one instance of rtorrent should be used with each session directory, though at the moment no locking is done. An empty string will disable the session directory. http_proxy = url Use a http proxy. Use an empty string to disable. encoding_list = encoding Add a preferred filename encoding to the list. The encodings are attempted in the order they are inserted, if none match the torrent default is used. schedule = id,start,interval,command Call command every interval seconds, starting from start. An interval of zero calls the task once, while a start of zero calls it immediately. Currently command is forwarded to the option handler. schedule_remove = id Delete id from the scheduler. This list contains settings users shouldn't need to touch. hash_read_ahead = MB Configure how far ahead we ask the kernel to read when doing hash checking. The hash checker uses madvise(..., MADV_WILLNEED) for the requests. hash_interval = ms Interval between attempts to check the hash when the chunk is not in memory, in milliseconds. hash_max_tries = tries Number of attempts to check the hash while using the mincore status, before forcing. Overworked systems might need lower values to get a decent hash checking rate. max_open_files = value Number of files to simultaneously keep open. Libtorrent dynamically opens and closes files when mapping files to memory. Defaults to 128. max_open_sockets = value Number of sockets to simultaneously keep open. This value is set to be sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) - 256 at startup. This gives the client 128 sockets to use as it wishes. umask = 0644 Set the umask for this process, which is applied to all files created by the program. Jari "Rakshasa" Sundell jaris@ifi.uio.no