RTorrent and necessarily settings

RTorrent is text-based ( console ) torrent client, whose author's goal is a focus on high performance and good code. RTorrent uses small amount of memory and, it claims to be able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official Bittorrent client.

Lets try rtorrent.

• Install rtorrent.
• Edit your config file rtorrent.rc. It is enough, if it contains this lines:

rtorrent.rc example:

directory = ~/Downloads
session = ~/rtorrent/rtorrent.session
schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=~/rtorrent/*.torrent
port_range = 45000-45100

• Create 3 directories like you named them in rtorrent.rc file. For example:

creating directory names:

mkdir ~/Downloads
mkdir -p ~/rtorrent/rtorrent.session

• Don't forget to open or forward ports in firewall or router.
• Now put some torrents to ~/rtorrent/ directory and start the program like that:

starting rtorrent:

$ rtorrent -n -o import=rtorrent.rc