Default/optimal values for send_buffer & receive_buffer

[shwetha17]

I'm trying to tune my seedbox and the lack of detailed information on rtorrent's various settings is amazing. That said, two specific questions:

• What is the default values for network.send_buffer.size.set and network.receive_buffer.size.set? Meaning if I don't change them in .rtorrent.rc, what does rTorrent use by default?
• What is an optimal value for both those settings for a seedbox with 1000 - 1500 torrents, 8GB RAM and a 1TB SATA HD? I'd like to maximize the RAM usage to minimize disk writes. Not sure what I can get away with, however.

Thanks.

 

[somus1735]

What is the default values for network.send_buffer.size.set and network.receive_buffer.size.set? Meaning if I don't change them in .rtorrent.rc, what does rTorrent use by default?

for linux systems type

cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem

and you will see

min default max

 

[shwetha17]

OK, so if I don't change anything via .rtorrent.rc, then it will use the default values set by the OS?

 

[somus1735]

Yes.