rtorrent gets unresponsive when moving files

[morbificagent]

Hi together,

i am playing with rtorrent for a few weeks now and have the problem that it gets unresponsive when i move files around. At the moment its done by:

method.insert = d.get_finished_dir, simple, "cat=/xxx/xxx/xxx/seeding/,$d.custom1=" method.insert = d.get_data_full_path, simple, "branch=((d.is_multi_file)),((cat,(d.directory))),((cat,(d.directory),/,(d.name)))" method.insert = d.move_to_complete, simple, "execute=mkdir,-p,$argument.1=; execute=cp,-r,--no-preserve=mode,$argument.0=,$argument.1=; d.stop=; d.directory.set=$argument.1=; d.start=;d.save_full_session=; execute=rm, -r, $argument.0=" method.set_key = event.download.finished,move_complete,"d.move_to_complete=$d.get_data_full_path=,$d.get_finished_dir="

which is working great except of the unresponsiveness in the time of moving the files. The systemload is ~0.6 in this time so it looks like it is only waiting for the process to be finished. Because it can take some hours when the files are bigger (the destination is on a slow drive) this is annoying.

Is there any way that rtorrent does the job in the background so i can use it while it is moving the files?

Many thanks

[rakshasa]

If you don't need it to restart you can make it move in the background.

If you are moving within the same filesystem mv should be almost instantaneous.

To make it move and restart, you should write a bash script that does the moving and then adds a file to a watch directory that in turn starts the torrent.

[rakshasa]

Really would be nice to have a way to execute commands after a background execution finishes.

[morbificagent]

Thanks for the answer.

To make it move and restart, you should write a bash script that does the moving and then adds a file to a watch directory that in turn starts the torrent.

I think I am not firm enough in scripting with rtorrent to do this. I'm not sure about different points of it.

• How to get the trigger for moving? (How can this script know when a download has finished when it isn't triggered the same way I do already?)

• where to get the path information of .torrent and the Data from?

Is there any example you know I could use?