Queue Manager

Queue Manager

Contents

• Introduction
• Queue Manager
  • Downloading queue manager
  • Disk free space manager

Introduction

The core concept of the setup is completely based on moving data AND meta files all around the place:

• there's a .downloading directory with categories (sub-directories) with which rtorrent will start downloading new torrents (these are the watch directories in .rtorrent-config.rc)
• when a download is finished rtorrent moves their data from incomplete directory AND meta files (from one of the sub-directories of .downloading directory) into their final place (meaning one of the sub-directories of .completed directory). The .downloading directories get empty all the time in this way.
• the .queue directory with categories (sub-directories) contain meta files that should be moved into one of the sub-directories of .downloading dir to be able to start them by rtorrent when there's free slot in the downloading queue
• there are 3 predefined categories/directory for rotating (deleting data) torrents:
  • rotating (means special group) and unsafe categories
  • .delqueue directory: it should contain only symlinks to deletable meta files
• there's also an unsafe_data custom variable defined in rtorrent that makes torrents deletable (value 2 means that the torrent is in delete-queue, meaning .delqueue directory)

Queue Manager

There's only 1 small queueTorrent.sh queue manager script with rotating (deleting data) capability and category support, that realize all the above mentioned tasks.

It contains 2 functionality:

• downloading queue manager that will queue torrents if there's free slot and free disk space for them
• disk free space manager that will delete data to make free space for the newcomers (this function is called from the downloading queue manager)

It runs from cron in every 5 minutes.

Downloading queue manager

Disk free space manager