Re: qBittorrent and RAM
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 11:52 pm
qBitTorrent's (libtorrent's actually) cache is wasteful -- for every 100 MB of additional cache size, qBitTorrent uses over 130 MB ram.
qBitTorrent crashes if its ram usage is over ~1950 MB (for the 32 bit version):
index.php/topic,2042.0.html
This can happen even with default settings at very high download and/or upload speeds:
index.php/topic,3567.msg17758.html#msg17758
The 64 bit version of qBitTorrent can handle a cache size as large as 4096 MB (4 GB), but qBT's extremely poor memory management can waste >1 GB extra and use >5 GB of ram.
There isn't really any reason to set the cache that high, because it won't help if the disk overload is due to slow drives -- it will delay the overload but make it much worse when it happens.
Best to not set qBT's cache size over 1000 MB regardless of using 32 or 64 bit qBT.
qBitTorrent crashes if its ram usage is over ~1950 MB (for the 32 bit version):
index.php/topic,2042.0.html
This can happen even with default settings at very high download and/or upload speeds:
index.php/topic,3567.msg17758.html#msg17758
The 64 bit version of qBitTorrent can handle a cache size as large as 4096 MB (4 GB), but qBT's extremely poor memory management can waste >1 GB extra and use >5 GB of ram.
There isn't really any reason to set the cache that high, because it won't help if the disk overload is due to slow drives -- it will delay the overload but make it much worse when it happens.
Best to not set qBT's cache size over 1000 MB regardless of using 32 or 64 bit qBT.