uTorrent running in Ubuntu Edgy via Wine

[delphiguy]

Cheers,

I am using uTorrent as my preferred BitTorrent Client for my Ubuntu Edgy system, however I have stumbled on something that I am not sure whether it is a uTorrent issue or a Linux one...

On some of the torrents I tried to download I get the error "too many open files", does somebody from here knows how to fix this?

Thanks

[Ultima]

Hm, possibly a Wine or OS limitation?

[DreadWingKnight]

ulimit -n

[caf4926]

never had this prob myself, though I use SuSe

dare I say azureus is an alt of course

[darklegion]

'ulimit -n 4096' fixed the problem for me.However, since you can't run this as a normal user you need to do this:

xhost + 
su 
ulimit -n 4096
su <your username>
wine utorrent.exe

Using 'xhost +' is security risk itself, though.

Under gentoo you can set this permanently by adding the following to /etc/security/limits.conf :

<your username>     hard    nofile  4096

I haven't rebooted to test the above yet, but it should work.Check your distribution's documentation/forums if your distribution doesn't have /etc/security/limits.conf.

[bgmnt]

Hi,

since you are using Ubuntu here is the clean solution for Debian-based systems:

You can do exactly what the user darklegion suggested for Gentoo.As root edit the file /etc/security/limits.conf and append the line

<your username>      hard    nofile  8192

to increase the limit from 1024 to 8192. You will have to logout and login again to make the new setting work. Verify that it is set correctly with ulimit -n (as user).

cheers

anonymous

[mastrboy]

this should be in the utorrent FAQ, encountered this problem when downloading a torrent with many files.

[Pramod]

Cheers,

I am using uTorrent as my preferred BitTorrent Client for my Ubuntu Edgy system, however I have stumbled on something that I am not sure whether it is a uTorrent issue or a Linux one...

On some of the torrents I tried to download I get the error "too many open files", does somebody from here knows how to fix this?

Thanks

same problem in Fedora Core 8

tried ulimit -n on various numers 8192,10240 etc

and changing max half open but now half open is 8 and 8192 is ulimit -n but can please any1 fix the problem? because of torrent stops and have to sit infront of UT so that when it stops can start it again

[Firon]

Set an insanely high ulimit and make sure it's actually kicking in for µTorrent.

[DreadWingKnight]

And make sure that the total of the following is BELOW that limit:

1> Global Number of connections

2> Number of files in all torrents loaded

3> Number of torrents loaded

4> 25

[Pramod]

1: 1000

2: 10000 files u can think approx in 25torretns

3: 25-35

[DreadWingKnight]

Minimum ulimit -n -> 11100

[fritzroy15]

for ubuntu 10.4 I used

Code:

user_name soft nofile 8192

and it worked, hope it helps

[peatorrent]

OKAY,... I'M PISSED... I don't have the time to google anymore..! I already wasted 3 weeks, 4 formats to fix this problem and it's reaaaallllyyyyy pissing to redo allllll the setting.. I think this is the solution for my high cpu usage and continous 'Error, can't open file'!!!! I'm on ubuntu 10.04.1. The line which fritzroy15 mentioned doesn't seem to work for me!

Like how do I find the actual username because in the user account windows, I see my name and underneath is another name in italic. I tired both name and added it to my /etc/security/limits.conf file

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Doesn't seem to work!!!!!! I tried adding all the type of format mentioned in thread.. what am I missing????????

Here the complete file below with the added line. Tell me what I should try adding/removing!!!

#/etc/security/limits.conf
#
#Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:
#
#<domain>        <type>  <item>  <value>
#
#Where:
#<domain> can be:
#        - an user name
#        - a group name, with @group syntax
#        - the wildcard *, for default entry
#        - the wildcard %, can be also used with %group syntax,
#                 for maxlogin limit
#        - NOTE: group and wildcard limits are not applied to root.
#          To apply a limit to the root user, <domain> must be
#          the literal username root.
#
#<type> can have the two values:
#        - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits
#        - "hard" for enforcing hard limits
#
#<item> can be one of the following:
#        - core - limits the core file size (KB)
#        - data - max data size (KB)
#        - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)
#        - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
#        - nofile - max number of open files
#        - rss - max resident set size (KB)
#        - stack - max stack size (KB)
#        - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)
#        - nproc - max number of processes
#        - as - address space limit (KB)
#        - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user
#        - maxsyslogins - max number of logins on the system
#        - priority - the priority to run user process with
#        - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold
#        - sigpending - max number of pending signals
#        - msgqueue - max memory used by POSIX message queues (bytes)
#        - nice - max nice priority allowed to raise to values: [-20, 19]
#        - rtprio - max realtime priority
#        - chroot - change root to directory (Debian-specific)
#
#<domain>      <type>  <item>         <value>
#

#*               soft    core            0
#root            hard    core            100000
#*               hard    rss             10000
#@student        hard    nproc           20
#@faculty        soft    nproc           20
#@faculty        hard    nproc           50
#ftp             hard    nproc           0
#ftp             -       chroot          /ftp
#@student        -       maxlogins       4

bahie            soft    nofile          8192

#End of file

One more thing, after running 'users' command on terminal, I get 'bahie bahie'!! why double 'bahie'?

[peatorrent]

anyone?

[DreadWingKnight]

Did you log out and in after applying the setting change?

What are your settings for preferences - queueing and preferences - bandwidth?

How many files are in the torrents you're loading?

[peatorrent]

Did you log out and in after applying the setting change?

What are your settings for preferences - queueing and preferences - bandwidth?

How many files are in the torrents you're loading?

Yes, I applied, logged out, checked - no change, check the file to see if it went default -no it didn't, rebooted again, check ulimit still default, x10 times!

Queuing - 3, limited up 15kb/sec, limited down 150kb/sec,

preferences, pretty much default... other than custom port

500 download, 200 completed..

100 cpu also!!!!! see my filed bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24755

[peatorrent]

hello..this is serious

[DreadWingKnight]

check ulimit still default, x10 times!

Then the problem is outside the scope of uTorrent if your operating system isn't applying the limit.

[WLS]

hello..this is serious

Well let's see.

#/etc/security/limits.conf

#

#Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:

#

#<domain> <type> <item> <value>

#

#Where:

#<domain> can be:

# - an user name

# - a group name, with @group syntax

# - the wildcard *, for default entry

# - the wildcard %, can be also used with %group syntax,

# for maxlogin limit

# - NOTE: group and wildcard limits are not applied to root.

# To apply a limit to the root user, <domain> must be

# the literal username root.

If you are trying to use Abdusamed which is your Administrator (root) account, in your /etc/security/limits.conf file you may want to reread the comments and understand what you are doing.

I have no idea what bahle (group name?) might be, but the Username is Abdusamed.

uTorrent in Wine just works for me on openSUSE 11.2 and suggest you contact an Ubuntu forum.

You are aware that you should never do anything online except update as root in Linux?

[peatorrent]

Update as root? ah... My bahie [account name : Abdusamed] is administrator. I don't know if can all it root. I still need to enter password for updating, installing, other admin tasks.

I don't know if bahie is a group name because in the top menu bar for chat, it says 'bahie' not Abdusamed.

It's confusing... but the ulimit don't seem to change no matter what I do.

[WLS]

Administrator is the root account.

[peatorrent]

There are two groups 'root' and 'admin' Yes...bahie seems to be a group which I never intended it to be..

So what should I do exactly?

[WLS]

Asking on the ubuntu forums would probably be a better option for you. I didn't realize it had a root group and Administrator group. :/

On openSUSE root is root, and root administers the OS, The users in the users group use the OS.

[peatorrent]

this is confusing... thanx... I guess no solution then