In this brief blog entry I'll note a few bits about rTorrent. This client is perhaps the best one available for combo desktop/download machines that would like to USE the resources and not commit them to the Torrent client. What is rTorrent? rTorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client written in C++, based on the libTorrent libraries for Unices (Rakshasa's own, not the sourceforge libtorrent), with a focus on high performance and good code. The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transferring data directly between file pages mapped to memory by the mmap() function and the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections, it is claimed to be able to seed at many times the speed of the official client. Read more