BTget howto?

[Michiel]

Hello guys,

i've set up my wl500g (Standard) and installed all the torrent packages including the .cgi script mady by Oleo..

But now my question: how can I start a torrent? I downloaded a torrent file, but I don't know how to start it and where to store it..

And is it nescesary to keep the telnetsession running??

[Michiel]

Is there no one who can help me?

I'm a real newbee in Linux and managed to do all the installation myself..

But how can i download a torrent to a specified directory on my harddisk?

yes i know i have to do it with btget, but how?

[oleo]

You must create directories

mkdir /tmp/harddisk/torrent 
mkdir /tmp/harddisk/torrent/target 
mkdir /tmp/harddisk/torrent/work 
mkdir /tmp/harddisk/torrent/source

Then you save .torrent file into source (eg with samba share$)

Then you cah use command line

torrent_admin -l

to list torrents. or -? for help.
or

 torrent_watchdog

to start processing!

Note that torrent_watchdog just looks over torrent processing. If some torrent dies it restarts it, or if torrent is finished then moves it into seeding queue or target. And if no torrent is currently processing it enqueues it into work queue. This means that torrent_watchdog should be run from cron (should suggested package. Corrected that in new ipk). Push is most usefull command as it pushes torrents from one queue to another.

Do you have questions about WWW cgi interface? But it seems to me that memory limitation os the standard 500g will be limiting multiple torrent processing as memory footprint of btget grows with number of active connections. For 70 peers it requires 16MB RSS RAM. Thats why Deluxe is a choice for such processing. I dont think thar ctorrent is any beter in memory requrements as it is written in C++.

[Michiel]

thanks for your reply... but is it nescesary to use /tmp/harddisk?

because i followed all the tuturials by macsat and so i have my harddisk mounted as /opt...


i have a huge swap partition of 1 GB.. is that enough to work with multiple torrents?

thanks again!

[oleo]

No it is not necessary to create on /tmp/harddisk but you should change /opt/etc/torrent.conf then to reflect your path settings. And report us how it performs on wl500g with swap. I have 512MB swap And usually I seed about 6 torrents and leech one or two.

[Michiel]

ok i think i started a torrent now but it is waiting to download?

so i wait till tonight.. then i let you know if it works..

greetz