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The main information screen for rTorrent and libTorrent (rTorrent v0.9.2)
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| Developer(s) | Jari Sundell (a.k.a. rakshasa) |
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| Initial release | 25 January 2005; 19 years ago (2005-01-25)[1] |
| Stable release |
0.9.8[2] |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | C++[3] |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Size | 1.3 MiB |
| Type | BitTorrent client |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later[a] |
| Website | rakshasa |
rTorrent is a text-based BitTorrent client written in C++,[4] based on the ncurses and libTorrent (not to be confused with libtorrent) libraries for Unix, whose author's goal is "a focus on high performance and good code".[4]
The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transferring data directly between file pages mapped to memory by the mmap() function and the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections, it claims to be able to seed at three times the speed of the official client.[4]
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 macOS.
rTorrent uses the ncurses library and is suitable for use with GNU ScreenorTmux; 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.[5] 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 BitTorrent protocol encryption was also implemented.[6] PEX, DHT and initial seeding were recently[when?] implemented in rTorrent.
rTorrent can be controlled via XML-RPC over SCGI.
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