Thanks for the answer! I was thinking about that already...
I'll look into config file again (Already looked a bit, could not find...), and will try rebuilding (Might be hard to build on WebOS, never tried on an embedded platform).
As for the purpose of this experiment, it is mainly for Science :).
I actually found myself with a defective(Slider problems, phone shuts down when moving it too hard), out-of-warranty, Pre. So instead of repairing, I thought that I could use the device as a small, free and fanless linux box and it is for the most part working out real well! And best of all, I can take it anywhere where there is wifi, start it and use it for all kinds of useful stuff :).
I'll look into your suggestion, thanks for the help!
Guillaume
--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "cbm128" <cbm128@...> wrote:
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> > I installed Rtorrent (following the procedure described here: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/RTorrent) on my rooted pre.
> > It works, but when loading a torrent, the phone freeze for 3-5 minutes before starting the torrent (even the shell becomes unresponsive).
>
> Could it be that it is allocating the storage for the object you are downloading?
> I know that some binary versions of rtorrent do preallocate space before triyng to download (slow startup)
> While others do sparse allocation of the files and only allocate the segments they are currently downloading (you get a painfully fragmented filesystem)
> I do not remember if this is something configurable at run-time or only at build time, check the doc.
> Besides that ususally the initialization is quite resource hungry, on my debianized sheevaplug it freezes for a few seconds (depending on object sie), maybe on a mobile device it is not that quick.
>
> Cheers
>
> Max
>
>
> P.S. what's the point in using a mobile phone to dload stuff over bittorrent (aside from the nice technical exercise ;-)
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