rTorrent, too low memory usage !?

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Published on 2010-04-20T02:46:41Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 2:54 UTC
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I want to know from more experienced rTorrent users how to tweak the .rtorrent.rc so that rTorrent will cache disk reading and writing (same as uTorrent does). I have set the max_memory_usage = 1GB but this amount is not used. I run 6 rTorrent instances on a Quad Core, 8 GB Ram machine and total used memory reported by htop is only ~500MB.

I need to use memory buffers cause disk IO activity is very high.

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