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System is highly constipated. I run 'top' then press shift m and find qbittorrent using VIRT 45G RES 4G!!! WTF?
Other programs only using a few megabytes.
free -m shows 4 G of swap is being used.
Could it have a severe memory leak?
Reboot and don't run qbittorent, everything is nice and quick.
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On Sun, 1 Mar 2026 09:14:15 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:

System is highly constipated. I run 'top' then press shift m and
find qbittorrent using VIRT 45G RES 4G!!!

I run KTorrent, which top reports is using 0.5% of RAM on an old
machine with 16GiB. ThatrCOs with 7 torrents active.
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On 01/03/2026 02.14, Woozy Song wrote:

System is highly constipated. I run 'top' then press shift m and find qbittorrent using VIRT 45G RES 4G!!! WTF?
Other programs only using a few megabytes.

The memory usage depends on how many torrents you have, the number of
trackers each of them have. The VIRT value is a total of what is used
and how much memory is reserved for future usage.

Don't forget the shared memory is used just once by multiple processes.

free -m shows 4 G of swap is being used.

This depends on your swapiness, by default it's set to 60%, which IMHO
is too high, you can lower it with systctl and sett the vm.swappiness to
a value between 0-100 (including those values).

Could it have a severe memory leak?

Nah, I would bet on you have a lot of torrents.
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//Aho

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J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/03/2026 02.14, Woozy Song wrote:

System is highly constipated. I run 'top' then press shift m and find
qbittorrent using VIRT 45G RES 4G!!! WTF?
Other programs only using a few megabytes.

The memory usage depends on how many torrents you have, the number of trackers each of them have. The VIRT value is a total of what is used
and how much memory is reserved for future usage.

Don't forget the shared memory is used just once by multiple processes.

free -m shows 4 G of swap is being used.

This depends on your swapiness, by default it's set to 60%, which IMHO
is too high, you can lower it with systctl and sett the vm.swappiness to
a value between 0-100 (including those values).

Could it have a severe memory leak?

Nah, I would bet on you have a lot of torrents.

39 completed, but most of the time none are uploading.
27 stalled; I am after rather obscure stuff, waiting days for a seed,
then they stop anywhere from 50 to 90%, never finished.
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On 2026-03-02 10:09, Woozy Song wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/03/2026 02.14, Woozy Song wrote:

System is highly constipated. I run 'top' then press shift m and find
qbittorrent using VIRT 45G RES 4G!!! WTF?
Other programs only using a few megabytes.

The memory usage depends on how many torrents you have, the number of
trackers each of them have. The VIRT value is a total of what is used
and how much memory is reserved for future usage.

Don't forget the shared memory is used just once by multiple processes.

free -m shows 4 G of swap is being used.

This depends on your swapiness, by default it's set to 60%, which IMHO
is too high, you can lower it with systctl and sett the vm.swappiness
to a value between 0-100 (including those values).

Could it have a severe memory leak?

Nah, I would bet on you have a lot of torrents.

39 completed, but most of the time none are uploading.
27 stalled; I am after rather obscure stuff, waiting days for a seed,
then they stop anywhere from 50 to 90%, never finished.

Long ago, the mule was better with those. I don't know now.
But somethings took years to download.
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Cheers, Carlos.
ESEfc-Efc+, EUEfc-Efc|;
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On 02/03/2026 10.09, Woozy Song wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/03/2026 02.14, Woozy Song wrote:

Could it have a severe memory leak?

Nah, I would bet on you have a lot of torrents.

39 completed, but most of the time none are uploading.
27 stalled; I am after rather obscure stuff, waiting days for a seed,
then they stop anywhere from 50 to 90%, never finished.

I'm quite minimalist, don't have much of torrents going at one time,
just a handful and when the session is finished they are cleaned out,
this mostly for it's a quite slow computer with quite limited memory (rpi).

Even completed that shares data will consume memory as it will still
need to announce it can share and what data it can share.

The stall at least from my experience is for there is no one with 100%
of the data (at least not reachable by you or other downloading
parties), In such cases it can be better luck with binary usergroups or
even Wayback Machine can have have the content scanned, but that can
require a lot of detective work.
--
//Aho
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J.O. Aho wrote:

On 02/03/2026 10.09, Woozy Song wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/03/2026 02.14, Woozy Song wrote:

Could it have a severe memory leak?

Nah, I would bet on you have a lot of torrents.

39 completed, but most of the time none are uploading.
27 stalled; I am after rather obscure stuff, waiting days for a seed,
then they stop anywhere from 50 to 90%, never finished.

I'm quite minimalist, don't have much of torrents going at one time,
just a handful and when the session is finished they are cleaned out,
this mostly for it's a quite slow computer with quite limited memory (rpi).

Even completed that shares data will consume memory as it will still
need to announce it can share and what data it can share.

The stall at least from my experience is for there is no one with 100%
of the data (at least not reachable by you or other downloading
parties), In such cases it can be better luck with binary usergroups or even-a Wayback Machine can have have the content scanned, but that can require a lot of detective work.

I recently found a few of the movies I wanted on sites like Tubi and
Fawesome. I guess the directors had given up on earning any more
royalties, and just wanted it out there, hoping to get more interest in
their work.
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