Hello,

Basically it is that the tracker-extract and totem-video-indexer consumes a lot of cpu power when downloading with ktorrent. Every chunk signals that it should reindex, and that is of course quite time consuming.

It is discussed in this thread:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/137352

At the bottom, some kind of "fix" is proposed:

"If this persists then Its a bug in the torrent client - it affects tracker and beagle (and most likely strigi too) as it opens files in rw mode when it should open them in r (readonly)

if opened in rw mode, inotify will trigger beagle, tracker and other inotify monitors into thinking that the file has finished changing and hence cause constant indexing"


I am using
Ktorrent 2.2.1 using KDE 3.5.8
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy

Thanks all, Ktorrent is really a great torrent client.

//Erik

Err... you can't exactly download to an readonly-opened file. The correct solution would be to set your download directories as no-watch.

jdong wrote:The correct solution would be to set your download directories as no-watch.

How does one do this?

system->prefs->Indexing Preferences.

You can set exclusion directories, set .kde/ and also your torrent download directory.