rtorrent + transmission: too much?

Soringo · April 3, 2016 at 9:38 PM

Is it possible to use these two clients with the RPi optimizing the use of resources? Or better not doing it?
I love torrent trackers, and this and kodi are my prioritiy.

Plus: Would you recommend me a tool to monitorize the use of resources?

Best regards

**chewitt** · April 4, 2016 at 10:44 AM Official Post

It's possible, but is that going to give you a good experience? .. probably not. LE (as OE before it) is really intended to be a client OS so I'd recommend a NAS for storage and downloading tasks.

**Nailig** · April 4, 2016 at 1:12 PM

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I'd recommend a NAS for storage and downloading tasks.

I agree, I have used openelec on a RPi and RPi 2. And even on the RPi 2 I found Kodi just a little bit sluggish. And that is without anything else running. If you would use it simultaneously for downloading, and even unpacking, you will have a very slow responding system.

Using another system like a NAS, or even another RPi is a much better idea.

Soringo · April 4, 2016 at 4:42 PM

Then it is confirmed that because of that my system was kinky xD

Torrent is a must have for me. So, I will turn off one of them when I use kodi.

Thank you

**nickr** · April 5, 2016 at 2:22 AM Official Post

You certainly don't need rtorrent AND transmission as they both do the same thing. rtorrent should use less resources, it is very efficient.

nuwonda · April 5, 2016 at 10:12 AM

Quote from nickr

You certainly don't need rtorrent AND transmission as they both do the same thing. rtorrent should use less resources, it is very efficient.

anybody did any try running flexget as a cronjob on a rpi2 or 3? I take it one would need to install distutils first? Still wondering if there is any plugin in development for flexget... it is running on my ancient buffalo nas like a charm but a friend of mine wants to just do everything (kodi & flexget/torrent during night hours storing on usb and/or wifi hd) with a rpi3.

**nickr** · April 6, 2016 at 6:54 AM Official Post

I think your friend may be better off with osmc. Unless you want to make an addon with all the dependencies.

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nuwonda · April 6, 2016 at 5:16 PM

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I think your friend may be better off with osmc. Unless you want to make an addon with all the dependencies.

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Yeah, I already told him to check out OSMC, it will still boil down to me setting it up for him heh. A plugin for flexget I tought about it but with the gazillion code changes and version updates I am not gonna bother, besides I rather run transmission+flexget on my NAS. Maybe I should tell him to get a cheap NAS on top of a RPI!

rtorrent + transmission: too much?

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