Ovidiu Lixandru wrote: > Hi. > Following a few package updates (Core, Extras et al), bittorrent started > behaving strangely. btdownloadcurses starts OK, begins downloading and, > after a few minutes, both the CPU and mem usage go through the roof. Left > alone, it fills both the physical memory and the swap, eventually bringing > down the machine. I've tried btdownloadheadless, different torrent files, > still the same issue. Some versions: > > > [ovidiu@ovidiu ~]$ rpm -q python bittorrent > python-2.3.4-13.1 > bittorrent-4.1.1-2.1.fc3.rf Your version of bittorrent comes from the "RPMForge" group of repos. IIRC there has been some discussion in the Freshrpms mailing list about this issue. http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/freshrpms-list -- William Hooper