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by Sir_Cmpwn 3031 days ago
Please help test it! We currently mean lightweight in terms of design, but we also want it to be lightweight in terms of performance. But we haven't had many opportunities to test it with truly huge numbers of torrents (though we have tested it on large torrents (1.5T+) with lots of files (1000+)).

As far as memory usage goes, I don't think low-memory devices have been a use-case Luminarys has had in mind yet, but he's probably on board with tuning with that in mind. On my client right now I have 45 torrents, 3 seeding, and one is that huge one I mentioned before - and synapse is using 1.2G of RAM, and 41G of virtual memory.

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That's a lot of memory...my little NAS has 512mb IIRC.

I run Transmission (from the Debian repo) on it and never even thought about memory usage before now, it just works. Admittedly I don't really let a bunch of torrents run at once though.

Yeah. I've opened a ticket to audit memory usage:

https://github.com/Luminarys/synapse/issues/80

I should note that I'm stress testing it, however, I have some particularly large torrents going.