I've left rTorrent running on 4.1 for weeks on end, (on both i386 and Sparc64), never had the OS freeze. I will try it again with 4.2, see if the results are different.
Recently I've seen several unexplained "freezes" on very simple 4.2 servers (e.g running nothing but BIND and arpwatch), similar to the symptoms reported earlier in this thread with rTorrent. On Feb 19, 2008 10:46 AM, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You've been using windows too much. If an application freezes the OS, > it's an OS issue (it still may be an application issue, but no amount > of application tickling of the OS should freeze the OS). Agreed. I'd bet the issue boils down to networking and/or disk I/O. The rTorrent application exercises so many facets of the OS, myriad places where it could trigger a kernel/disk/routing/pf/etc bug, one which lesser applications wouldn't trip. If there's interest in putting up a tracker for a bunch of OpenBSD ports/packages/distfiles torrents, I'll gladly assist in exercising/exorcising this problem by running a seedbox. Kevin
