RTorrent
The main information screen for rTorrent and libTorrent (rTorrent v0.9.2)
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| Original author(s) | Jari Sundell (a.k.a. rakshasa) |
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| Developer(s) | Jari Sundell |
| Initial release | January 25, 2005 |
| Stable release | rTorrent 0.9.6 / libTorrent 0.13.6 (September 3, 2015) |
| Preview release | git-ce000851 (September 9, 2016) |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++ |
| 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++, based on the libTorrent libraries for Unix, whose author's goal is "a focus on high performance and good code".
The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transferring data directly between file pages mapped to memory by the mmap() function and the . On high-bandwidth connections, it claims to be able to seed at three times the speed of the official client.
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. 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 was also implemented.PEX, DHT and initial seeding were recently implemented in rTorrent.
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