Which OS do you like for torrents?

[Dani394]

Depending on the application, I use primarily 2 different OS'.

For rtorrent and rutorrent, Centos.

For utorrent, I use ubuntu with wine.

I know a lot of people have issues with Centos, due to memory spikes and such.

If you are going to setup a shared rtorrent install, Centos works very nicely.

This of course depends on your knowledge of the operating system.
To get Centos to work nicely with multiple or single instances of rtorrent and/or other services, you need to really optimize the kernel.

Memory optimizations done through sysctl can really benefit you there.

For shared servers, you really need to have a strong connection.

rtorrent sort of fails when it comes to multiple users, but if you research, you can make Centos run with such a low load, it will boggle your mind.

For example, I have a server up housing 6 users. Each has about 10 different torrents running right now, on a 100mb/s connection.

The load is: 2.01

during hash checks, the loads spike to 6

Now, on a poorly configured Centos box, 6 can be horrible, shutting down all other services, or making them virtually useless.

But on my boxes, they can(and have) handled a load of 100+ without disruption to many services(of course ssh runs with higher priority than anything else, to prevent the problem of me not being able to get in), but still.

I'd like to know your opinion as well.

Thanks.

[DanaV]

Assuming you're referring to seedboxes only, Debian. My load average is around 0.26, and that's with all sorts of things running at once (rtorrent/rutorrent, apache, ZNC, eggdrop, mysql, xvfb, etc). Having a load average of 2 running rtorrent alone implies CentOS is a terrible choice. And that's with 200 torrents, not 60.

Other advantages: easy package management, abundance of guides, very stable operating system (unless you're running SID), and low resource use.

[barbhosrika]

For home - Windows.
For seedbox - some Linux distant.

[Caution]

Home- windows xp (for torrent machine) utorrent
windows 7 for downloading fast (my gaming rig) utorrent

Seedbox-
wine with utorrent on a ubuntu server
(I would use windows xp if I could because it uses less ram than ubuntu)

I actually hate linux, but I wouldn't consider myself a windows fanboy.... Even though I love windows os... lol

[♥katie]

Home: Windows XP
Seedbox: don't have one.

[♪ Offshore Driller]

Depending on the application, I use primarily 2 different OS'.

For rtorrent and rutorrent, Centos.

For utorrent, I use ubuntu with wine.

I know a lot of people have issues with Centos, due to memory spikes and such.

If you are going to setup a shared rtorrent install, Centos works very nicely.

This of course depends on your knowledge of the operating system.
To get Centos to work nicely with multiple or single instances of rtorrent and/or other services, you need to really optimize the kernel.

Memory optimizations done through sysctl can really benefit you there.

For shared servers, you really need to have a strong connection.

rtorrent sort of fails when it comes to multiple users, but if you research, you can make Centos run with such a low load, it will boggle your mind.

For example, I have a server up housing 6 users. Each has about 10 different torrents running right now, on a 100mb/s connection.

The load is: 2.01

during hash checks, the loads spike to 6

Now, on a poorly configured Centos box, 6 can be horrible, shutting down all other services, or making them virtually useless.

But on my boxes, they can(and have) handled a load of 100+ without disruption to many services(of course ssh runs with higher priority than anything else, to prevent the problem of me not being able to get in), but still.

I'd like to know your opinion as well.

Thanks.

Which optimizations do you make at kernel level?
Usually I go for debian when I use servers, though I've tried CentOS, but haven't gone much in depth.

[freddy b]

Home: Windows 7
Seedbox: Never used one

[bikerboy]

Only Win XP Prof. for me!

[pinacoloda123]

Windows XP!