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/*
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#ifndef TORRENT_SETTINGS_PACK_HPP_INCLUDED
#define TORRENT_SETTINGS_PACK_HPP_INCLUDED
#include "libtorrent/entry.hpp"
#include <vector>
#include "libtorrent/aux_/disable_warnings_push.hpp"
#include <boost/smart_ptr.hpp>
#include "libtorrent/aux_/disable_warnings_pop.hpp"
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// OVERVIEW
//
// You have some control over session configuration through the session::apply_settings()
// member function. To change one or more configuration options, create a settings_pack.
// object and fill it with the settings to be set and pass it in to session::apply_settings().
//
// You have control over proxy and authorization settings and also the user-agent
// that will be sent to the tracker. The user-agent will also be used to identify the
// client with other peers.
//
namespace libtorrent
{
namespace aux { struct session_impl; struct session_settings; }
struct settings_pack;
struct bdecode_node;
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TORRENT_EXTRA_EXPORT boost::shared_ptr<settings_pack> load_pack_from_dict(bdecode_node const& settings);
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TORRENT_EXTRA_EXPORT void save_settings_to_dict(aux::session_settings const& s, entry::dictionary_type& sett);
TORRENT_EXTRA_EXPORT void apply_pack(settings_pack const* pack, aux::session_settings& sett, aux::session_impl* ses = 0);
TORRENT_EXPORT int setting_by_name(std::string const& name);
TORRENT_EXPORT char const* name_for_setting(int s);
#ifndef TORRENT_NO_DEPRECATE
struct session_settings;
boost::shared_ptr<settings_pack> load_pack_from_struct(aux::session_settings const& current, session_settings const& s);
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void load_struct_from_settings(aux::session_settings const& current, session_settings& ret);
#endif
// The ``settings_pack`` struct, contains the names of all settings as
// enum values. These values are passed in to the ``set_str()``,
// ``set_int()``, ``set_bool()`` functions, to specify the setting to
// change.
//
// These are the available settings:
//
// .. include:: settings-ref.rst
//
struct TORRENT_EXPORT settings_pack
{
friend void apply_pack(settings_pack const* pack, aux::session_settings& sett, aux::session_impl* ses);
void set_str(int name, std::string val);
void set_int(int name, int val);
void set_bool(int name, bool val);
bool has_val(int name) const;
void clear();
std::string get_str(int name) const;
int get_int(int name) const;
bool get_bool(int name) const;
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// setting names (indices) are 16 bits. The two most significant
// bits indicate what type the setting has. (string, int, bool)
enum type_bases
{
string_type_base = 0x0000,
int_type_base = 0x4000,
bool_type_base = 0x8000,
type_mask = 0xc000,
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index_mask = 0x3fff
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};
enum string_types
{
// this is the client identification to the tracker. The recommended
// format of this string is: "ClientName/ClientVersion
// libtorrent/libtorrentVersion". This name will not only be used when
// making HTTP requests, but also when sending extended headers to
// peers that support that extension. It may not contain \r or \n
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user_agent = string_type_base,
// ``announce_ip`` is the ip address passed along to trackers as the
// ``&ip=`` parameter. If left as the default, that parameter is
// omitted.
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announce_ip,
// ``mmap_cache`` may be set to a filename where the disk cache will
// be mmapped to. This could be useful, for instance, to map the disk
// cache from regular rotating hard drives onto an SSD drive. Doing
// that effectively introduces a second layer of caching, allowing the
// disk cache to be as big as can fit on an SSD drive (probably about
// one order of magnitude more than the available RAM). The intention
// of this setting is to set it up once at the start up and not change
// it while running. The setting may not be changed as long as there
// are any disk buffers in use. This default to the empty string,
// which means use regular RAM allocations for the disk cache. The
// file specified will be created and truncated to the disk cache size
// (``cache_size``). Any existing file with the same name will be
// replaced.
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//
// Since this setting sets a hard upper limit on cache usage, it
// cannot be combined with
// ``session_settings::contiguous_recv_buffer``, since that feature
// treats the ``cache_size`` setting as a soft (but still pretty hard)
// limit. The result of combining the two is peers being disconnected
// after failing to allocate more disk buffers.
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//
// This feature requires the ``mmap`` system call, on systems that
// don't have ``mmap`` this setting is ignored.
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mmap_cache,
// this is the client name and version identifier sent to peers in the
// handshake message. If this is an empty string, the user_agent is
// used instead
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handshake_client_version,
// sets the network interface this session will use when it opens
// outgoing connections. By default, it binds outgoing connections to
// INADDR_ANY and port 0 (i.e. let the OS decide). Ths parameter must
// be a string containing one or more, comma separated, adapter names.
// Adapter names on unix systems are of the form "eth0", "eth1",
// "tun0", etc. When specifying multiple interfaces, they will be
// assigned in round-robin order. This may be useful for clients that
// are multi-homed. Binding an outgoing connection to a local IP does
// not necessarily make the connection via the associated NIC/Adapter.
// Setting this to an empty string will disable binding of outgoing
// connections.
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outgoing_interfaces,
// a comma-separated list of (IP or device name, port) pairs. These
// are the listen ports that will be opened for accepting incoming uTP
// and TCP connections. It is possible to listen on multiple
// interfaces and multiple ports. Binding to port 0 will make the
// operating system pick the port. The default is "0.0.0.0:0", which
// binds to all interfaces on a port the OS picks.
//
// if binding fails, the listen_failed_alert is posted, otherwise the
// listen_succeeded_alert.
//
// If the DHT is running, it will also have its socket rebound to the
// same port as the main listen port.
//
// The reason why it's a good idea to run the DHT and the bittorrent
// socket on the same port is because that is an assumption that may
// be used to increase performance. One way to accelerate the
// connecting of peers on windows may be to first ping all peers with
// a DHT ping packet, and connect to those that responds first. On
// windows one can only connect to a few peers at a time because of a
// built in limitation (in XP Service pack 2).
listen_interfaces,
// when using a poxy, this is the hostname where the proxy is running
// see proxy_type.
proxy_hostname,
// when using a proxy, these are the credentials (if any) to use whne
// connecting to it. see proxy_type
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proxy_username,
proxy_password,
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// sets the i2p_ SAM bridge to connect to. set the port with the
// ``i2p_port`` setting.
//
// .. _i2p: http://www.i2p2.de
i2p_hostname,
// this is the fingerprint for the client. It will be used as the
// prefix to the peer_id. If this is 20 bytes (or longer) it will be
// used as the peer-id
peer_fingerprint,
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max_string_setting_internal
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};
enum bool_types
{
// determines if connections from the same IP address as existing
// connections should be rejected or not. Multiple connections from
// the same IP address is not allowed by default, to prevent abusive
// behavior by peers. It may be useful to allow such connections in
// cases where simulations are run on the same machie, and all peers
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// in a swarm has the same IP address.
allow_multiple_connections_per_ip = bool_type_base,
// if set to true, upload, download and unchoke limits are ignored for
// peers on the local network. This option is *DEPRECATED*, please use
// set_peer_class_filter() instead.
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#ifndef TORRENT_NO_DEPRECATE
ignore_limits_on_local_network,
#else
deprecated1,
#endif
// ``send_redundant_have`` controls if have messages will be sent to
// peers that already have the piece. This is typically not necessary,
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// but it might be necessary for collecting statistics in some cases.
// Default is false.
send_redundant_have,
// if this is true, outgoing bitfields will never be fuil. If the
// client is seed, a few bits will be set to 0, and later filled in
// with have messages. This is to prevent certain ISPs from stopping
// people from seeding.
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lazy_bitfields,
// ``use_dht_as_fallback`` determines how the DHT is used. If this is
// true, the DHT will only be used for torrents where all trackers in
// its tracker list has failed. Either by an explicit error message or
// a time out. This is false by default, which means the DHT is used
// by default regardless of if the trackers fail or not.
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use_dht_as_fallback,
// ``upnp_ignore_nonrouters`` indicates whether or not the UPnP
// implementation should ignore any broadcast response from a device
// whose address is not the configured router for this machine. i.e.
// it's a way to not talk to other people's routers by mistake.
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upnp_ignore_nonrouters,
// ``use_parole_mode`` specifies if parole mode should be used. Parole
// mode means that peers that participate in pieces that fail the hash
// check are put in a mode where they are only allowed to download
// whole pieces. If the whole piece a peer in parole mode fails the
// hash check, it is banned. If a peer participates in a piece that
// passes the hash check, it is taken out of parole mode.
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use_parole_mode,
// enable and disable caching of read blocks and blocks to be written
// to disk respsectively. the purpose of the read cache is partly
// read-ahead of requests but also to avoid reading blocks back from
// the disk multiple times for popular pieces. the write cache purpose
// is to hold off writing blocks to disk until they have been hashed,
// to avoid having to read them back in again.
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use_read_cache,
use_write_cache,
// this will make the disk cache never flush a write piece if it would
// cause is to have to re-read it once we want to calculate the piece
// hash
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dont_flush_write_cache,
// ``explicit_read_cache`` defaults to 0. If set to something greater
// than 0, the disk read cache will not be evicted by cache misses and
// will explicitly be controlled based on the rarity of pieces. Rare
// pieces are more likely to be cached. This would typically be used
// together with ``suggest_mode`` set to ``suggest_read_cache``. The
// value is the number of pieces to keep in the read cache. If the
// actual read cache can't fit as many, it will essentially be
// clamped.
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explicit_read_cache,
// allocate separate, contiguous, buffers for read and write calls.
// Only used where writev/readv cannot be used will use more RAM but
// may improve performance
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coalesce_reads,
coalesce_writes,
// prefer seeding torrents when determining which torrents to give
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// active slots to, the default is false which gives preference to
// downloading torrents
auto_manage_prefer_seeds,
// if ``dont_count_slow_torrents`` is true, torrents without any
// payload transfers are not subject to the ``active_seeds`` and
// ``active_downloads`` limits. This is intended to make it more
// likely to utilize all available bandwidth, and avoid having
// torrents that don't transfer anything block the active slots.
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dont_count_slow_torrents,
// ``close_redundant_connections`` specifies whether libtorrent should
// close connections where both ends have no utility in keeping the
// connection open. For instance if both ends have completed their
// downloads, there's no point in keeping it open.
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close_redundant_connections,
// If ``prioritize_partial_pieces`` is true, partial pieces are picked
// before pieces that are more rare. If false, rare pieces are always
// prioritized, unless the number of partial pieces is growing out of
// proportion.
prioritize_partial_pieces,
// if set to true, the estimated TCP/IP overhead is drained from the
// rate limiters, to avoid exceeding the limits with the total traffic
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rate_limit_ip_overhead,
// ``announce_to_all_trackers`` controls how multi tracker torrents
// are treated. If this is set to true, all trackers in the same tier
// are announced to in parallel. If all trackers in tier 0 fails, all
// trackers in tier 1 are announced as well. If it's set to false, the
// behavior is as defined by the multi tracker specification. It
// defaults to false, which is the same behavior previous versions of
// libtorrent has had as well.
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//
// ``announce_to_all_tiers`` also controls how multi tracker torrents
// are treated. When this is set to true, one tracker from each tier
// is announced to. This is the uTorrent behavior. This is false by
// default in order to comply with the multi-tracker specification.
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announce_to_all_tiers,
announce_to_all_trackers,
// ``prefer_udp_trackers`` is true by default. It means that trackers
// may be rearranged in a way that udp trackers are always tried
// before http trackers for the same hostname. Setting this to false
// means that the trackers' tier is respected and there's no
// preference of one protocol over another.
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prefer_udp_trackers,
// ``strict_super_seeding`` when this is set to true, a piece has to
// have been forwarded to a third peer before another one is handed
// out. This is the traditional definition of super seeding.
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strict_super_seeding,
// if this is set to true, the memory allocated for the disk cache
// will be locked in physical RAM, never to be swapped out. Every time
// a disk buffer is allocated and freed, there will be the extra
// overhead of a system call.
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lock_disk_cache,
// when set to true, all data downloaded from peers will be assumed to
// be correct, and not tested to match the hashes in the torrent this
// is only useful for simulation and testing purposes (typically
// combined with disabled_storage)
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disable_hash_checks,
// if this is true, i2p torrents are allowed to also get peers from
// other sources than the tracker, and connect to regular IPs, not
// providing any anonymization. This may be useful if the user is not
// interested in the anonymization of i2p, but still wants to be able
// to connect to i2p peers.
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allow_i2p_mixed,
// ``low_prio_disk`` determines if the disk I/O should use a normal or
// low priority policy. This defaults to true, which means that it's
// low priority by default. Other processes doing disk I/O will
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// normally take priority in this mode. This is meant to improve the
// overall responsiveness of the system while downloading in the
// background. For high-performance server setups, this might not be
// desirable.
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low_prio_disk,
// ``volatile_read_cache``, if this is set to true, read cache blocks
// that are hit by peer read requests are removed from the disk cache
// to free up more space. This is useful if you don't expect the disk
// cache to create any cache hits from other peers than the one who
// triggered the cache line to be read into the cache in the first
// place.
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volatile_read_cache,
// ``guided_read_cache`` enables the disk cache to adjust the size of
// a cache line generated by peers to depend on the upload rate you
// are sending to that peer. The intention is to optimize the RAM
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// usage of the cache, to read ahead further for peers that you're
// sending faster to.
guided_read_cache,
// ``no_atime_storage`` this is a linux-only option and passes in the
// ``O_NOATIME`` to ``open()`` when opening files. This may lead to
// some disk performance improvements.
no_atime_storage,
// ``incoming_starts_queued_torrents`` defaults to false. If a torrent
// has been paused by the auto managed feature in libtorrent, i.e. the
// torrent is paused and auto managed, this feature affects whether or
// not it is automatically started on an incoming connection. The main
// reason to queue torrents, is not to make them unavailable, but to
// save on the overhead of announcing to the trackers, the DHT and to
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// avoid spreading one's unchoke slots too thin. If a peer managed to
// find us, even though we're no in the torrent anymore, this setting
// can make us start the torrent and serve it.
incoming_starts_queued_torrents,
// when set to true, the downloaded counter sent to trackers will
// include the actual number of payload bytes donwnloaded including
// redundant bytes. If set to false, it will not include any redundany
// bytes
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report_true_downloaded,
// ``strict_end_game_mode`` defaults to true, and controls when a
// block may be requested twice. If this is ``true``, a block may only
// be requested twice when there's ay least one request to every piece
// that's left to download in the torrent. This may slow down progress
// on some pieces sometimes, but it may also avoid downloading a lot
// of redundant bytes. If this is ``false``, libtorrent attempts to
// use each peer connection to its max, by always requesting
// something, even if it means requesting something that has been
// requested from another peer already.
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strict_end_game_mode,
// if ``broadcast_lsd`` is set to true, the local peer discovery (or
// Local Service Discovery) will not only use IP multicast, but also
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// broadcast its messages. This can be useful when running on networks
// that don't support multicast. Since broadcast messages might be
// expensive and disruptive on networks, only every 8th announce uses
// broadcast.
broadcast_lsd,
// when set to true, libtorrent will try to make outgoing utp
// connections controls whether libtorrent will accept incoming
// connections or make outgoing connections of specific type.
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enable_outgoing_utp,
enable_incoming_utp,
enable_outgoing_tcp,
enable_incoming_tcp,
// ``ignore_resume_timestamps`` determines if the storage, when
// loading resume data files, should verify that the file modification
// time with the timestamps in the resume data. This defaults to
// false, which means timestamps are taken into account, and resume
// data is less likely to accepted (torrents are more likely to be
// fully checked when loaded). It might be useful to set this to true
// if your network is faster than your disk, and it would be faster to
// redownload potentially missed pieces than to go through the whole
// storage to look for them.
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ignore_resume_timestamps,
// ``no_recheck_incomplete_resume`` determines if the storage should
// check the whole files when resume data is incomplete or missing or
// whether it should simply assume we don't have any of the data. By
// default, this is determined by the existance of any of the files.
// By setting this setting to true, the files won't be checked, but
// will go straight to download mode.
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no_recheck_incomplete_resume,
// ``anonymous_mode`` defaults to false. When set to true, the client
// tries to hide its identity to a certain degree. The peer-ID will no
// longer include the client's fingerprint. The user-agent will be
// reset to an empty string. Trackers will only be used if they are
// using a proxy server. The listen sockets are closed, and incoming
// connections will only be accepted through a SOCKS5 or I2P proxy (if
// a peer proxy is set up and is run on the same machine as the
// tracker proxy). Since no incoming connections are accepted,
// NAT-PMP, UPnP, DHT and local peer discovery are all turned off when
// this setting is enabled.
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//
// If you're using I2P, it might make sense to enable anonymous mode
// as well.
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anonymous_mode,
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// specifies whether downloads from web seeds is reported to the
// tracker or not. Defaults to on. Turning it off also excludes web
// seed traffic from other stats and download rate reporting via the
// libtorrent API.
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report_web_seed_downloads,
// set to true if uTP connections should be rate limited This option
// is *DEPRECATED*, please use set_peer_class_filter() instead.
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#ifndef TORRENT_NO_DEPRECATE
rate_limit_utp,
#else
deprecated2,
#endif
// if this is true, the ``&ip=`` argument in tracker requests (unless
// otherwise specified) will be set to the intermediate IP address if
// the user is double NATed. If ther user is not double NATed, this
// option does not have an affect
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announce_double_nat,
// ``seeding_outgoing_connections`` determines if seeding (and
// finished) torrents should attempt to make outgoing connections or
// not. By default this is true. It may be set to false in very
// specific applications where the cost of making outgoing connections
// is high, and there are no or small benefits of doing so. For
// instance, if no nodes are behind a firewall or a NAT, seeds don't
// need to make outgoing connections.
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seeding_outgoing_connections,
// when this is true, libtorrent will not attempt to make outgoing
// connections to peers whose port is < 1024. This is a safety
// precaution to avoid being part of a DDoS attack
no_connect_privileged_ports,
// ``smooth_connects`` is true by default, which means the number of
// connection attempts per second may be limited to below the
// ``connection_speed``, in case we're close to bump up against the
// limit of number of connections. The intention of this setting is to
// more evenly distribute our connection attempts over time, instead
// of attempting to connectin in batches, and timing them out in
// batches.
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smooth_connects,
// always send user-agent in every web seed request. If false, only
// the first request per http connection will include the user agent
always_send_user_agent,
// ``apply_ip_filter_to_trackers`` defaults to true. It determines
// whether the IP filter applies to trackers as well as peers. If this
// is set to false, trackers are exempt from the IP filter (if there
// is one). If no IP filter is set, this setting is irrelevant.
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apply_ip_filter_to_trackers,
// ``use_disk_read_ahead`` defaults to true and will attempt to
// optimize disk reads by giving the operating system heads up of disk
// read requests as they are queued in the disk job queue.
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use_disk_read_ahead,
// ``lock_files`` determines whether or not to lock files which
// libtorrent is downloading to or seeding from. This is implemented
// using ``fcntl(F_SETLK)`` on unix systems and by not passing in
// ``SHARE_READ`` and ``SHARE_WRITE`` on windows. This might prevent
// 3rd party processes from corrupting the files under libtorrent's
// feet.
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lock_files,
// ``contiguous_recv_buffer`` determines whether or not libtorrent
// should receive data from peers into a contiguous intermediate
// buffer, to then copy blocks into disk buffers from, or to make many
// smaller calls to ``read()``, each time passing in the specific
// buffer the data belongs in. When downloading at high rates, the
// latter may save some time copying data. When seeding at high rates,
// all incoming traffic consists of a very large number of tiny
// packets, and enabling ``contiguous_recv_buffer`` will provide
// higher performance. When this is enabled, it will only be used when
// seeding to peers, since that's when it provides performance
// improvements.
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contiguous_recv_buffer,
// when true, web seeds sending bad data will be banned
ban_web_seeds,
// when set to false, the ``write_cache_line_size`` will apply across
// piece boundaries. this is a bad idea unless the piece picker also
// is configured to have an affinity to pick pieces belonging to the
// same write cache line as is configured in the disk cache.
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allow_partial_disk_writes,
// If true, disables any communication that's not going over a proxy.
// Enabling this requires a proxy to be configured as well, see
// ``set_proxy_settings``. The listen sockets are closed, and incoming
// connections will only be accepted through a SOCKS5 or I2P proxy (if
// a peer proxy is set up and is run on the same machine as the
// tracker proxy). This setting also disabled peer country lookups,
// since those are done via DNS lookups that aren't supported by
// proxies.
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force_proxy,
// if false, prevents libtorrent to advertise share-mode support
support_share_mode,
// if this is false, don't advertise support for the Tribler merkle
// tree piece message
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support_merkle_torrents,
// if this is true, the number of redundant bytes is sent to the
// tracker
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report_redundant_bytes,
// if this is true, libtorrent will fall back to listening on a port
// chosen by the operating system (i.e. binding to port 0). If a
// failure is preferred, set this to false.
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listen_system_port_fallback,
// ``use_disk_cache_pool`` enables using a pool allocator for disk
// cache blocks. Enabling it makes the cache perform better at high
// throughput. It also makes the cache less likely and slower at
// returning memory back to the system, once allocated.
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use_disk_cache_pool,
// when this is true, and incoming encrypted connections are enabled,
// &supportcrypt=1 is included in http tracker announces
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announce_crypto_support,
// Starts and stops the UPnP service. When started, the listen port
// and the DHT port are attempted to be forwarded on local UPnP router
// devices.
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//
// The upnp object returned by ``start_upnp()`` can be used to add and
// remove arbitrary port mappings. Mapping status is returned through
// the portmap_alert and the portmap_error_alert. The object will be
// valid until ``stop_upnp()`` is called. See upnp-and-nat-pmp_.
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enable_upnp,
// Starts and stops the NAT-PMP service. When started, the listen port
// and the DHT port are attempted to be forwarded on the router
// through NAT-PMP.
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//
// The natpmp object returned by ``start_natpmp()`` can be used to add
// and remove arbitrary port mappings. Mapping status is returned
// through the portmap_alert and the portmap_error_alert. The object
// will be valid until ``stop_natpmp()`` is called. See
// upnp-and-nat-pmp_.
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enable_natpmp,
// Starts and stops Local Service Discovery. This service will
// broadcast the infohashes of all the non-private torrents on the
// local network to look for peers on the same swarm within multicast
// reach.
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enable_lsd,
// starts the dht node and makes the trackerless service available to
// torrents.
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enable_dht,
// if the allowed encryption level is both, setting this to true will
// prefer rc4 if both methods are offered, plaintext otherwise
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prefer_rc4,
// if true, hostname lookups are done via the configured proxy (if
// any). This is only supported by SOCKS5 and HTTP.
proxy_hostnames,
// if true, peer connections are made (and accepted) over the
// configured proxy, if any.
proxy_peer_connections,
// if this setting is true, torrents with a very high availability of
// pieces (and seeds) are downloaded sequentially. This is more
// efficient for the disk I/O. With many seeds, the download order is
// unlikely to matter anyway
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auto_sequential,
// if true, trackerconnections are made over the configured proxy, if
// any.
proxy_tracker_connections,
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max_bool_setting_internal
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};
enum int_types
{
// ``tracker_completion_timeout`` is the number of seconds the tracker
// connection will wait from when it sent the request until it
// considers the tracker to have timed-out. Default value is 60
// seconds.
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tracker_completion_timeout = int_type_base,
// ``tracker_receive_timeout`` is the number of seconds to wait to
// receive any data from the tracker. If no data is received for this
// number of seconds, the tracker will be considered as having timed
// out. If a tracker is down, this is the kind of timeout that will
// occur.
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tracker_receive_timeout,
// the time to wait when sending a stopped message before considering
// a tracker to have timed out. this is usually shorter, to make the
// client quit faster
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stop_tracker_timeout,
// this is the maximum number of bytes in a tracker response. If a
// response size passes this number of bytes it will be rejected and
// the connection will be closed. On gzipped responses this size is
// measured on the uncompressed data. So, if you get 20 bytes of gzip
// response that'll expand to 2 megabytes, it will be interrupted
// before the entire response has been uncompressed (assuming the
// limit is lower than 2 megs).
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tracker_maximum_response_length,
// the number of seconds from a request is sent until it times out if
// no piece response is returned.
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piece_timeout,
// the number of seconds one block (16kB) is expected to be received
// within. If it's not, the block is requested from a different peer
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request_timeout,
// the length of the request queue given in the number of seconds it
// should take for the other end to send all the pieces. i.e. the
// actual number of requests depends on the download rate and this
// number.
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request_queue_time,
// the number of outstanding block requests a peer is allowed to queue
// up in the client. If a peer sends more requests than this (before
// the first one has been sent) the last request will be dropped. the
// higher this is, the faster upload speeds the client can get to a
// single peer.
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max_allowed_in_request_queue,
// ``max_out_request_queue`` is the maximum number of outstanding
// requests to send to a peer. This limit takes precedence over
// ``request_queue_time``. i.e. no matter the download speed, the
// number of outstanding requests will never exceed this limit.
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max_out_request_queue,
// if a whole piece can be downloaded in this number of seconds, or
// less, the peer_connection will prefer to request whole pieces at a
// time from this peer. The benefit of this is to better utilize disk
// caches by doing localized accesses and also to make it easier to
// identify bad peers if a piece fails the hash check.
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whole_pieces_threshold,
// ``peer_timeout`` is the number of seconds the peer connection
// should wait (for any activity on the peer connection) before
// closing it due to time out. This defaults to 120 seconds, since
// that's what's specified in the protocol specification. After half
// the time out, a keep alive message is sent.
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peer_timeout,
// same as peer_timeout, but only applies to url-seeds. this is
// usually set lower, because web servers are expected to be more
// reliable.
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urlseed_timeout,
// controls the pipelining size of url-seeds. i.e. the number of HTTP
// request to keep outstanding before waiting for the first one to
// complete. It's common for web servers to limit this to a relatively
// low number, like 5
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urlseed_pipeline_size,
// time to wait until a new retry of a web seed takes place
urlseed_wait_retry,
// sets the upper limit on the total number of files this session will
// keep open. The reason why files are left open at all is that some
// anti virus software hooks on every file close, and scans the file
// for viruses. deferring the closing of the files will be the
// difference between a usable system and a completely hogged down
// system. Most operating systems also has a limit on the total number
// of file descriptors a process may have open. It is usually a good
// idea to find this limit and set the number of connections and the
// number of files limits so their sum is slightly below it.
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file_pool_size,
// ``max_failcount`` is the maximum times we try to connect to a peer
// before stop connecting again. If a peer succeeds, the failcounter
// is reset. If a peer is retrieved from a peer source (other than
// DHT) the failcount is decremented by one, allowing another try.
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max_failcount,
// the number of seconds to wait to reconnect to a peer. this time is
// multiplied with the failcount.
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min_reconnect_time,
// ``peer_connect_timeout`` the number of seconds to wait after a
// connection attempt is initiated to a peer until it is considered as
// having timed out. This setting is especially important in case the
// number of half-open connections are limited, since stale half-open
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// connection may delay the connection of other peers considerably.
peer_connect_timeout,
// ``connection_speed`` is the number of connection attempts that are
// made per second. If a number < 0 is specified, it will default to
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// 200 connections per second. If 0 is specified, it means don't make
// outgoing connections at all.
connection_speed,
// if a peer is uninteresting and uninterested for longer than this
// number of seconds, it will be disconnected. default is 10 minutes
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inactivity_timeout,
// ``unchoke_interval`` is the number of seconds between
// chokes/unchokes. On this interval, peers are re-evaluated for being
// choked/unchoked. This is defined as 30 seconds in the protocol, and
// it should be significantly longer than what it takes for TCP to
// ramp up to it's max rate.
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unchoke_interval,
// ``optimistic_unchoke_interval`` is the number of seconds between
// each *optimistic* unchoke. On this timer, the currently
// optimistically unchoked peer will change.
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optimistic_unchoke_interval,
// ``num_want`` is the number of peers we want from each tracker
// request. It defines what is sent as the ``&num_want=`` parameter to
// the tracker.
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num_want,
// ``initial_picker_threshold`` specifies the number of pieces we need
// before we switch to rarest first picking. This defaults to 4, which
// means the 4 first pieces in any torrent are picked at random, the
// following pieces are picked in rarest first order.
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initial_picker_threshold,
// the number of allowed pieces to send to peers that supports the
// fast extensions
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allowed_fast_set_size,
// ``suggest_mode`` controls whether or not libtorrent will send out
// suggest messages to create a bias of its peers to request certain
// pieces. The modes are:
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//
// * ``no_piece_suggestsions`` which is the default and will not send
// out suggest messages.
// * ``suggest_read_cache`` which will send out suggest messages for
// the most recent pieces that are in the read cache.
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suggest_mode,
// ``max_queued_disk_bytes`` is the number maximum number of bytes, to
// be written to disk, that can wait in the disk I/O thread queue.
// This queue is only for waiting for the disk I/O thread to receive
// the job and either write it to disk or insert it in the write
// cache. When this limit is reached, the peer connections will stop
// reading data from their sockets, until the disk thread catches up.
// Setting this too low will severly limit your download rate.
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max_queued_disk_bytes,
// the number of seconds to wait for a handshake response from a peer.
// If no response is received within this time, the peer is
// disconnected.
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handshake_timeout,
// ``send_buffer_low_watermark`` the minimum send buffer target size
// (send buffer includes bytes pending being read from disk). For good
// and snappy seeding performance, set this fairly high, to at least
// fit a few blocks. This is essentially the initial window size which
// will determine how fast we can ramp up the send rate
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//
// if the send buffer has fewer bytes than ``send_buffer_watermark``,
// we'll read another 16kB block onto it. If set too small, upload
// rate capacity will suffer. If set too high, memory will be wasted.
// The actual watermark may be lower than this in case the upload rate
// is low, this is the upper limit.
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//
// the current upload rate to a peer is multiplied by this factor to
// get the send buffer watermark. The factor is specified as a
// percentage. i.e. 50 -> 0.5 This product is clamped to the
// ``send_buffer_watermark`` setting to not exceed the max. For high
// speed upload, this should be set to a greater value than 100. For
// high capacity connections, setting this higher can improve upload
// performance and disk throughput. Setting it too high may waste RAM
// and create a bias towards read jobs over write jobs.
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send_buffer_low_watermark,
send_buffer_watermark,
send_buffer_watermark_factor,
// ``choking_algorithm`` specifies which algorithm to use to determine
// which peers to unchoke.
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//
// The options for choking algorithms are:
//
// * ``fixed_slots_choker`` is the traditional choker with a fixed
// number of unchoke slots (as specified by
// ``session::set_max_uploads()``).
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//
// * ``rate_based_choker`` opens up unchoke slots based on the upload
// rate achieved to peers. The more slots that are opened, the
// marginal upload rate required to open up another slot increases.
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//
// * ``bittyrant_choker`` attempts to optimize download rate by
// finding the reciprocation rate of each peer individually and
// prefers peers that gives the highest *return on investment*. It
// still allocates all upload capacity, but shuffles it around to
// the best peers first. For this choker to be efficient, you need
// to set a global upload rate limit
// (``session::set_upload_rate_limit()``). For more information
// about this choker, see the paper_. This choker is not fully
// implemented nor tested.
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//
// .. _paper: http://bittyrant.cs.washington.edu/#papers
//
// ``seed_choking_algorithm`` controls the seeding unchoke behavior.
// The available options are:
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//
// * ``round_robin`` which round-robins the peers that are unchoked
// when seeding. This distributes the upload bandwidht uniformly and
// fairly. It minimizes the ability for a peer to download everything
// without redistributing it.
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//
// * ``fastest_upload`` unchokes the peers we can send to the fastest.
// This might be a bit more reliable in utilizing all available
// capacity.
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//
// * ``anti_leech`` prioritizes peers who have just started or are
// just about to finish the download. The intention is to force
// peers in the middle of the download to trade with each other.
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choking_algorithm,
seed_choking_algorithm,
// ``cache_size`` is the disk write and read cache. It is specified
// in units of 16 KiB blocks. Buffers that are part of a peer's send
// or receive buffer also count against this limit. Send and receive
// buffers will never be denied to be allocated, but they will cause
// the actual cached blocks to be flushed or evicted. If this is set
// to -1, the cache size is automatically set to the amount of
// physical RAM available in the machine divided by 8. If the amount
// of physical RAM cannot be determined, it's set to 1024 (= 16 MiB).
//
// Disk buffers are allocated using a pool allocator, the number of
// blocks that are allocated at a time when the pool needs to grow can
// be specified in ``cache_buffer_chunk_size``. Lower numbers saves
// memory at the expense of more heap allocations. If it is set to 0,
// the effective chunk size is proportional to the total cache size,
// attempting to strike a good balance between performance and memory
// usage. It defaults to 0. ``cache_expiry`` is the number of seconds
// from the last cached write to a piece in the write cache, to when
// it's forcefully flushed to disk. Default is 60 second.
cache_size,
cache_buffer_chunk_size,
cache_expiry,
// ``explicit_cache_interval`` is the number of seconds in between
// each refresh of a part of the explicit read cache. Torrents take
// turns in refreshing and this is the time in between each torrent
// refresh. Refreshing a torrent's explicit read cache means scanning
// all pieces and picking a random set of the rarest ones. There is an
// affinity to pick pieces that are already in the cache, so that
// subsequent refreshes only swaps in pieces that are rarer than
// whatever is in the cache at the time.
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explicit_cache_interval,
// determines how files are opened when they're in read only mode
// versus read and write mode. The options are:
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//
// enable_os_cache
// This is the default and files are opened normally, with the OS
// caching reads and writes.
// disable_os_cache
// This opens all files in no-cache mode. This corresponds to the
// OS not letting blocks for the files linger in the cache. This
// makes sense in order to avoid the bittorrent client to
// potentially evict all other processes' cache by simply handling
// high throughput and large files. If libtorrent's read cache is
// disabled, enabling this may reduce performance.
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//
// One reason to disable caching is that it may help the operating
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// system from growing its file cache indefinitely.
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disk_io_write_mode,
disk_io_read_mode,
// this is the first port to use for binding outgoing connections to.
// This is useful for users that have routers that allow QoS settings
// based on local port. when binding outgoing connections to specific
// ports, ``num_outgoing_ports`` is the size of the range. It should
// be more than a few
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//
// .. warning:: setting outgoing ports will limit the ability to keep
// multiple connections to the same client, even for different
// torrents. It is not recommended to change this setting. Its main
// purpose is to use as an escape hatch for cheap routers with QoS
// capability but can only classify flows based on port numbers.
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//
// It is a range instead of a single port because of the problems with
// failing to reconnect to peers if a previous socket to that peer and
// port is in ``TIME_WAIT`` state.
outgoing_port,
num_outgoing_ports,
// ``peer_tos`` determines the TOS byte set in the IP header of every
// packet sent to peers (including web seeds). The default value for
// this is ``0x0`` (no marking). One potentially useful TOS mark is
// ``0x20``, this represents the *QBone scavenger service*. For more
// details, see QBSS_.
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//
// .. _`QBSS`: http://qbone.internet2.edu/qbss/
peer_tos,
// for auto managed torrents, these are the limits they are subject
// to. If there are too many torrents some of the auto managed ones
// will be paused until some slots free up. ``active_downloads`` and
// ``active_seeds`` controls how many active seeding and downloading
// torrents the queuing mechanism allows. The target number of active
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// torrents is ``min(active_downloads + active_seeds, active_limit)``.
// ``active_downloads`` and ``active_seeds`` are upper limits on the
// number of downloading torrents and seeding torrents respectively.
// Setting the value to -1 means unlimited.
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//
// For example if there are 10 seeding torrents and 10 downloading
// torrents, and ``active_downloads`` is 4 and ``active_seeds`` is 4,
// there will be 4 seeds active and 4 downloading torrents. If the
// settings are ``active_downloads`` = 2 and ``active_seeds`` = 4,
// then there will be 2 downloading torrents and 4 seeding torrents
// active. Torrents that are not auto managed are not counted against
// these limits.
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//
// ``active_limit`` is a hard limit on the number of active torrents.
// This applies even to slow torrents.
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//
// ``active_dht_limit`` is the max number of torrents to announce to
// the DHT. By default this is set to 88, which is no more than one
// DHT announce every 10 seconds.
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//
// ``active_tracker_limit`` is the max number of torrents to announce
// to their trackers. By default this is 360, which is no more than
// one announce every 5 seconds.
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//
// ``active_lsd_limit`` is the max number of torrents to announce to
// the local network over the local service discovery protocol. By
// default this is 80, which is no more than one announce every 5
// seconds (assuming the default announce interval of 5 minutes).
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//
// You can have more torrents *active*, even though they are not
// announced to the DHT, lsd or their tracker. If some peer knows
// about you for any reason and tries to connect, it will still be
// accepted, unless the torrent is paused, which means it won't accept
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// any connections.
//
// ``active_loaded_limit`` is the number of torrents that are allowed
// to be *loaded* at any given time. Note that a torrent can be active
// even though it's not loaded. if an unloaded torrents finds a peer
// that wants to access it, the torrent will be loaded on demand,
// using a user-supplied callback function. If the feature of
// unloading torrents is not enabled, this setting have no effect. If
// this limit is set to 0, it means unlimited. For more information,
// see dynamic-loading-of-torrent-files_.
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active_downloads,
active_seeds,
active_dht_limit,
active_tracker_limit,
active_lsd_limit,
active_limit,
active_loaded_limit,
// ``auto_manage_interval`` is the number of seconds between the
// torrent queue is updated, and rotated.
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auto_manage_interval,
// this is the limit on the time a torrent has been an active seed
// (specified in seconds) before it is considered having met the seed
// limit criteria. See queuing_.
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seed_time_limit,
// ``auto_scrape_interval`` is the number of seconds between scrapes
// of queued torrents (auto managed and paused torrents). Auto managed
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// torrents that are paused, are scraped regularly in order to keep
// track of their downloader/seed ratio. This ratio is used to
// determine which torrents to seed and which to pause.
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//
// ``auto_scrape_min_interval`` is the minimum number of seconds
// between any automatic scrape (regardless of torrent). In case there
// are a large number of paused auto managed torrents, this puts a
// limit on how often a scrape request is sent.
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auto_scrape_interval,
auto_scrape_min_interval,
// ``max_peerlist_size`` is the maximum number of peers in the list of
// known peers. These peers are not necessarily connected, so this
// number should be much greater than the maximum number of connected
// peers. Peers are evicted from the cache when the list grows passed
// 90% of this limit, and once the size hits the limit, peers are no
// longer added to the list. If this limit is set to 0, there is no
// limit on how many peers we'll keep in the peer list.
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//
// ``max_paused_peerlist_size`` is the max peer list size used for
// torrents that are paused. This default to the same as
// ``max_peerlist_size``, but can be used to save memory for paused
// torrents, since it's not as important for them to keep a large peer
// list.
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max_peerlist_size,
max_paused_peerlist_size,
// this is the minimum allowed announce interval for a tracker. This
// is specified in seconds and is used as a sanity check on what is
// returned from a tracker. It mitigates hammering misconfigured
// trackers.
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min_announce_interval,
// this is the number of seconds a torrent is considered active after
// it was started, regardless of upload and download speed. This is so
// that newly started torrents are not considered inactive until they
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// have a fair chance to start downloading.
auto_manage_startup,
// ``seeding_piece_quota`` is the number of pieces to send to a peer,
// when seeding, before rotating in another peer to the unchoke set.
// It defaults to 3 pieces, which means that when seeding, any peer
// we've sent more than this number of pieces to will be unchoked in
// favour of a choked peer.
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seeding_piece_quota,
// TODO: deprecate this
// ``max_rejects`` is the number of piece requests we will reject in a
// row while a peer is choked before the peer is considered abusive
// and is disconnected.
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max_rejects,
// ``recv_socket_buffer_size`` and ``send_socket_buffer_size``
// specifies the buffer sizes set on peer sockets. 0 (which is the
// default) means the OS default (i.e. don't change the buffer sizes).
// The socket buffer sizes are changed using setsockopt() with
// SOL_SOCKET/SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUFFER.
recv_socket_buffer_size,
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send_socket_buffer_size,
// ``file_checks_delay_per_block`` is the number of milliseconds to
// sleep in between disk read operations when checking torrents. This
// defaults to 0, but can be set to higher numbers to slow down the
// rate at which data is read from the disk while checking. This may
// be useful for background tasks that doesn't matter if they take a
// bit longer, as long as they leave disk I/O time for other
// processes.
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file_checks_delay_per_block,
// ``read_cache_line_size`` is the number of blocks to read into the
// read cache when a read cache miss occurs. Setting this to 0 is
// essentially the same thing as disabling read cache. The number of
// blocks read into the read cache is always capped by the piece
// boundry.
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//
// When a piece in the write cache has ``write_cache_line_size``
// contiguous blocks in it, they will be flushed. Setting this to 1
// effectively disables the write cache.
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read_cache_line_size,
write_cache_line_size,
// ``optimistic_disk_retry`` is the number of seconds from a disk
// write errors occur on a torrent until libtorrent will take it out
// of the upload mode, to test if the error condition has been fixed.
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//
// libtorrent will only do this automatically for auto managed
// torrents.
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//
// You can explicitly take a torrent out of upload only mode using
// set_upload_mode().
optimistic_disk_retry,
// ``max_suggest_pieces`` is the max number of suggested piece indices
// received from a peer that's remembered. If a peer floods suggest
// messages, this limit prevents libtorrent from using too much RAM.
// It defaults to 10.
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max_suggest_pieces,
// ``local_service_announce_interval`` is the time between local
// network announces for a torrent. By default, when local service
// discovery is enabled a torrent announces itself every 5 minutes.
// This interval is specified in seconds.
local_service_announce_interval,
// ``dht_announce_interval`` is the number of seconds between
// announcing torrents to the distributed hash table (DHT).
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dht_announce_interval,
// ``udp_tracker_token_expiry`` is the number of seconds libtorrent
// will keep UDP tracker connection tokens around for. This is
// specified to be 60 seconds, and defaults to that. The higher this
// value is, the fewer packets have to be sent to the UDP tracker. In
// order for higher values to work, the tracker needs to be configured
// to match the expiration time for tokens.
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udp_tracker_token_expiry,
// ``default_cache_min_age`` is the minimum number of seconds any read
// cache line is kept in the cache. This defaults to one second but
// may be greater if ``guided_read_cache`` is enabled. Having a lower
// bound on the time a cache line stays in the cache is an attempt
// to avoid swapping the same pieces in and out of the cache in case
// there is a shortage of spare cache space.
default_cache_min_age,
// ``num_optimistic_unchoke_slots`` is the number of optimistic
// unchoke slots to use. It defaults to 0, which means automatic.
// Having a higher number of optimistic unchoke slots mean you will
// find the good peers faster but with the trade-off to use up more
// bandwidth. When this is set to 0, libtorrent opens up 20% of your
// allowed upload slots as optimistic unchoke slots.
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num_optimistic_unchoke_slots,
// ``default_est_reciprocation_rate`` is the assumed reciprocation
// rate from peers when using the BitTyrant choker. This defaults to
// 14 kiB/s. If set too high, you will over-estimate your peers and be
// more altruistic while finding the true reciprocation rate, if it's
// set too low, you'll be too stingy and waste finding the true
// reciprocation rate.
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//
// ``increase_est_reciprocation_rate`` specifies how many percent the
// extimated reciprocation rate should be increased by each unchoke
// interval a peer is still choking us back. This defaults to 20%.
// This only applies to the BitTyrant choker.
//
// ``decrease_est_reciprocation_rate`` specifies how many percent the
// estimated reciprocation rate should be decreased by each unchoke
// interval a peer unchokes us. This default to 3%. This only applies
// to the BitTyrant choker.
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default_est_reciprocation_rate,
increase_est_reciprocation_rate,
decrease_est_reciprocation_rate,
// the max number of peers we accept from pex messages from a single
// peer. this limits the number of concurrent peers any of our peers
// claims to be connected to. If they clain to be connected to more
// than this, we'll ignore any peer that exceeds this limit
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max_pex_peers,
// ``tick_interval`` specifies the number of milliseconds between
// internal ticks. This is the frequency with which bandwidth quota is
// distributed to peers. It should not be more than one second (i.e.
// 1000 ms). Setting this to a low value (around 100) means higher
// resolution bandwidth quota distribution, setting it to a higher
// value saves CPU cycles.
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tick_interval,
// ``share_mode_target`` specifies the target share ratio for share
// mode torrents. This defaults to 3, meaning we'll try to upload 3
// times as much as we download. Setting this very high, will make it
// very conservative and you might end up not downloading anything
// ever (and not affecting your share ratio). It does not make any
// sense to set this any lower than 2. For instance, if only 3 peers
// need to download the rarest piece, it's impossible to download a
// single piece and upload it more than 3 times. If the
// share_mode_target is set to more than 3, nothing is downloaded.
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share_mode_target,
// ``upload_rate_limit``, ``download_rate_limit``,
// ``local_upload_rate_limit`` and ``local_download_rate_limit`` sets
// the session-global limits of upload and download rate limits, in
// bytes per second. The local rates refer to peers on the local
// network. By default peers on the local network are not rate
// limited.
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//
// These rate limits are only used for local peers (peers within the
// same subnet as the client itself) and it is only used when
// ``ignore_limits_on_local_network`` is set to true (which it is by
// default). These rate limits default to unthrottled, but can be
// useful in case you want to treat local peers preferentially, but
// not quite unthrottled.
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//
// A value of 0 means unlimited.
upload_rate_limit,
download_rate_limit,
#ifndef TORRENT_NO_DEPRECATE
local_upload_rate_limit,
local_download_rate_limit,
#else
deprecated3,
deprecated4,
#endif
// ``dht_upload_rate_limit`` sets the rate limit on the DHT. This is
// specified in bytes per second and defaults to 4000. For busy boxes
// with lots of torrents that requires more DHT traffic, this should
// be raised.
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dht_upload_rate_limit,
// ``unchoke_slots_limit`` is the max number of unchoked peers in the
// session. The number of unchoke slots may be ignored depending on
// what ``choking_algorithm`` is set to.
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unchoke_slots_limit,
#ifndef TORRENT_NO_DEPRECATE
// ``half_open_limit`` sets the maximum number of half-open
// connections libtorrent will have when connecting to peers. A
// half-open connection is one where connect() has been called, but
// the connection still hasn't been established (nor failed). Windows
// XP Service Pack 2 sets a default, system wide, limit of the number
// of half-open connections to 10. So, this limit can be used to work
// nicer together with other network applications on that system. The
// default is to have no limit, and passing -1 as the limit, means to
// have no limit. When limiting the number of simultaneous connection
// attempts, peers will be put in a queue waiting for their turn to
// get connected.
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half_open_limit,
#else
deprecated5,
#endif
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// ``connections_limit`` sets a global limit on the number of
// connections opened. The number of connections is set to a hard
// minimum of at least two per torrent, so if you set a too low
// connections limit, and open too many torrents, the limit will not
// be met.
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connections_limit,
// ``connections_slack`` is the the number of incoming connections
// exceeding the connection limit to accept in order to potentially
// replace existing ones.
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connections_slack,
// ``utp_target_delay`` is the target delay for uTP sockets in
// milliseconds. A high value will make uTP connections more
// aggressive and cause longer queues in the upload bottleneck. It
// cannot be too low, since the noise in the measurements would cause
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// it to send too slow. The default is 50 milliseconds.
// ``utp_gain_factor`` is the number of bytes the uTP congestion
// window can increase at the most in one RTT. This defaults to 300
// bytes. If this is set too high, the congestion controller reacts
// too hard to noise and will not be stable, if it's set too low, it
// will react slow to congestion and not back off as fast.
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//
// ``utp_min_timeout`` is the shortest allowed uTP socket timeout,
// specified in milliseconds. This defaults to 500 milliseconds. The
// timeout depends on the RTT of the connection, but is never smaller
// than this value. A connection times out when every packet in a
// window is lost, or when a packet is lost twice in a row (i.e. the
// resent packet is lost as well).
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//
// The shorter the timeout is, the faster the connection will recover
// from this situation, assuming the RTT is low enough.
// ``utp_syn_resends`` is the number of SYN packets that are sent (and
// timed out) before giving up and closing the socket.
// ``utp_num_resends`` is the number of times a packet is sent (and
// lossed or timed out) before giving up and closing the connection.
// ``utp_connect_timeout`` is the number of milliseconds of timeout
// for the initial SYN packet for uTP connections. For each timed out
// packet (in a row), the timeout is doubled. ``utp_loss_multiplier``
// controls how the congestion window is changed when a packet loss is
// experienced. It's specified as a percentage multiplier for
// ``cwnd``. By default it's set to 50 (i.e. cut in half). Do not
// change this value unless you know what you're doing. Never set it
// higher than 100.
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utp_target_delay,
utp_gain_factor,
utp_min_timeout,
utp_syn_resends,
utp_fin_resends,
utp_num_resends,
utp_connect_timeout,
#ifndef TORRENT_NO_DEPRECATE
utp_delayed_ack,
#else
deprecated6,
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#endif
utp_loss_multiplier,
// The ``mixed_mode_algorithm`` determines how to treat TCP
// connections when there are uTP connections. Since uTP is designed
// to yield to TCP, there's an inherent problem when using swarms that
// have both TCP and uTP connections. If nothing is done, uTP
// connections would often be starved out for bandwidth by the TCP
// connections. This mode is ``prefer_tcp``. The ``peer_proportional``
// mode simply looks at the current throughput and rate limits all TCP
// connections to their proportional share based on how many of the
// connections are TCP. This works best if uTP connections are not
// rate limited by the global rate limiter (which they aren't by
// default).
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mixed_mode_algorithm,
// ``listen_queue_size`` is the value passed in to listen() for the
// listen socket. It is the number of outstanding incoming connections
// to queue up while we're not actively waiting for a connection to be
// accepted. The default is 5 which should be sufficient for any
// normal client. If this is a high performance server which expects
// to receive a lot of connections, or used in a simulator or test, it
// might make sense to raise this number. It will not take affect
// until listen_on() is called again (or for the first time).
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listen_queue_size,
// ``torrent_connect_boost`` is the number of peers to try to connect
// to immediately when the first tracker response is received for a
// torrent. This is a boost to given to new torrents to accelerate
// them starting up. The normal connect scheduler is run once every
// second, this allows peers to be connected immediately instead of
// waiting for the session tick to trigger connections.
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torrent_connect_boost,
// ``alert_queue_size`` is the maximum number of alerts queued up
// internally. If alerts are not popped, the queue will eventually
// fill up to this level.
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alert_queue_size,
// ``max_metadata_size`` is the maximum allowed size (in bytes) to be
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// received by the metadata extension, i.e. magnet links.
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max_metadata_size,
// ``hashing_threads`` is the number of threads to use for piece hash
// verification. It defaults to 1. For very high download rates, on
// machines with multiple cores, this could be incremented. Setting it
// higher than the number of CPU cores would presumably not provide
// any benefit of setting it to the number of cores. If it's set to 0,
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// hashing is done in the disk thread.
hashing_threads,
// the number of blocks to keep outstanding at any given time when
// checking torrents. Higher numbers give faster re-checks but uses
// more memory. Specified in number of 16 kiB blocks
checking_mem_usage,
// if set to > 0, pieces will be announced to other peers before they
// are fully downloaded (and before they are hash checked). The
// intention is to gain 1.5 potential round trip times per downloaded
// piece. When non-zero, this indicates how many milliseconds in
// advance pieces should be announced, before they are expected to be
// completed.
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predictive_piece_announce,
// for some aio back-ends, ``aio_threads`` specifies the number of
// io-threads to use, and ``aio_max`` the max number of outstanding
// jobs.
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aio_threads,
aio_max,
// ``network_threads`` is the number of threads to use to call
// ``async_write_some`` (i.e. send) on peer connection sockets. When
// seeding at extremely high rates, this may become a bottleneck, and
// setting this to 2 or more may parallelize that cost. When using SSL
// torrents, all encryption for outgoing traffic is done withint the
// socket send functions, and this will help parallelizing the cost of
// SSL encryption as well.
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network_threads,
// ``ssl_listen`` sets the listen port for SSL connections. If this is
// set to 0, no SSL listen port is opened. Otherwise a socket is
// opened on this port. This setting is only taken into account when
// opening the regular listen port, and won't re-open the listen
// socket simply by changing this setting.
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ssl_listen,
// ``tracker_backoff`` determines how aggressively to back off from
// retrying failing trackers. This value determines *x* in the
// following formula, determining the number of seconds to wait until
// the next retry:
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//
// delay = 5 + 5 * x / 100 * fails^2
//
// This setting may be useful to make libtorrent more or less
// aggressive in hitting trackers.
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tracker_backoff,
// when a seeding torrent reaches eaither the share ratio (bytes up /
// bytes down) or the seed time ratio (seconds as seed / seconds as
// downloader) or the seed time limit (seconds as seed) it is
// considered done, and it will leave room for other torrents these
// are specified as percentages
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share_ratio_limit,
seed_time_ratio_limit,
// peer_turnover is the percentage of peers to disconnect every
// turnover peer_turnover_interval (if we're at the peer limit), this
// is specified in percent when we are connected to more than limit *
// peer_turnover_cutoff peers disconnect peer_turnover fraction of the
// peers. It is specified in percent peer_turnover_interval is the
// interval (in seconds) between optimistic disconnects if the
// disconnects happen and how many peers are disconnected is
// controlled by peer_turnover and peer_turnover_cutoff
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peer_turnover,
peer_turnover_cutoff,
peer_turnover_interval,
// this setting controls the priority of downloading torrents over
// seeding or finished torrents when it comes to making peer
// connections. Peer connections are throttled by the connection_speed
// and the half-open connection limit. This makes peer connections a
// limited resource. Torrents that still have pieces to download are
// prioritized by default, to avoid having many seeding torrents use
// most of the connection attempts and only give one peer every now
// and then to the downloading torrent. libtorrent will loop over the
// downloading torrents to connect a peer each, and every n:th
// connection attempt, a finished torrent is picked to be allowed to
// connect to a peer. This setting controls n.
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connect_seed_every_n_download,
// the max number of bytes to allow an HTTP response to be when
// announcing to trackers or downloading .torrent files via the
// ``url`` provided in ``add_torrent_params``.
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max_http_recv_buffer_size,
// if binding to a specific port fails, should the port be incremented
// by one and tried again? This setting specifies how many times to
// retry a failed port bind
max_retry_port_bind,
// a bitmask combining flags from alert::category_t defining which
// kinds of alerts to receive
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alert_mask,
// control the settings for incoming and outgoing connections
// respectively. see enc_policy enum for the available options.
// Keep in mind that protocol encryption degrades performance in
// several respects:
// 1. It prevents "zero copy" disk buffers being sent to peers, since
// each peer needs to mutate the data (i.e. encrypt it) the data
// must be copied per peer connection rather than sending the same
// buffer to multiple peers.
// 2. The encryption itself requires more CPU than plain bittorrent
// protocol. The highest cost is the Diffie Hellman exchange on
// connection setup.
// 3. The encryption handshake adds several round-trips to the
// connection setup, and delays transferring data.
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out_enc_policy,
in_enc_policy,
// determines the encryption level of the connections. This setting
// will adjust which encryption scheme is offered to the other peer,
// as well as which encryption scheme is selected by the client. See
// enc_level enum for options.
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allowed_enc_level,
// the download and upload rate limits for a torrent to be considered
// active by the queuing mechanism. A torrent whose download rate is
// less than ``inactive_down_rate`` and whose upload rate is less than
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// ``inactive_up_rate`` for ``auto_manage_startup`` seconds, is
// considered inactive, and another queued torrent may be startert.
// This logic is disabled if ``dont_count_slow_torrents`` is false.
inactive_down_rate,
inactive_up_rate,
// proxy to use, defaults to none. see proxy_type_t.
proxy_type,
// the port of the proxy server
proxy_port,
// sets the i2p_ SAM bridge port to connect to. set the hostname with
// the ``i2p_hostname`` setting.
//
// .. _i2p: http://www.i2p2.de
i2p_port,
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max_int_setting_internal
};
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enum settings_counts_t
{
num_string_settings = max_string_setting_internal - string_type_base,
num_bool_settings = max_bool_setting_internal - bool_type_base,
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num_int_settings = max_int_setting_internal - int_type_base
};
enum suggest_mode_t { no_piece_suggestions = 0, suggest_read_cache = 1 };
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enum choking_algorithm_t
{
fixed_slots_choker = 0,
rate_based_choker = 2,
bittyrant_choker = 3
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};
enum seed_choking_algorithm_t
{
round_robin,
fastest_upload,
anti_leech
};
enum io_buffer_mode_t
{
enable_os_cache = 0,
#ifndef TORRENT_NO_DEPRECATE
disable_os_cache_for_aligned_files = 2,
#else
deprecated = 1,
#endif
disable_os_cache = 2
};
enum bandwidth_mixed_algo_t
{
// disables the mixed mode bandwidth balancing
prefer_tcp = 0,
// does not throttle uTP, throttles TCP to the same proportion
// of throughput as there are TCP connections
peer_proportional = 1
};
// the encoding policy options for use with
// settings_pack::out_enc_policy and settings_pack::in_enc_policy.
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enum enc_policy
{
// Only encrypted connections are allowed. Incoming connections that
// are not encrypted are closed and if the encrypted outgoing
// connection fails, a non-encrypted retry will not be made.
pe_forced,
// encrypted connections are enabled, but non-encrypted connections
// are allowed. An incoming non-encrypted connection will be accepted,
// and if an outgoing encrypted connection fails, a non- encrypted
// connection will be tried.
pe_enabled,
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// only non-encrypted connections are allowed.
pe_disabled
};
// the encryption levels, to be used with
// settings_pack::allowed_enc_level.
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enum enc_level
{
// use only plaintext encryption
pe_plaintext = 1,
// use only rc4 encryption
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pe_rc4 = 2,
// allow both
pe_both = 3
};
enum proxy_type_t
{
// This is the default, no proxy server is used, all other fields are
// ignored.
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none,
// The server is assumed to be a `SOCKS4 server`_ that requires a
// username.
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//
// .. _`SOCKS4 server`: http://www.ufasoft.com/doc/socks4_protocol.htm
socks4,
// The server is assumed to be a SOCKS5 server (`RFC 1928`_) that does
// not require any authentication. The username and password are
// ignored.
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//
// .. _`RFC 1928`: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1928.html
socks5,
// The server is assumed to be a SOCKS5 server that supports plain
// text username and password authentication (`RFC 1929`_). The
// username and password specified may be sent to the proxy if it
// requires.
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//
// .. _`RFC 1929`: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1929.html
socks5_pw,
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// The server is assumed to be an HTTP proxy. If the transport used
// for the connection is non-HTTP, the server is assumed to support
// the CONNECT_ method. i.e. for web seeds and HTTP trackers, a plain
// proxy will suffice. The proxy is assumed to not require
// authorization. The username and password will not be used.
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//
// .. _CONNECT: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-luotonen-web-proxy-tunneling-01
http,
// The server is assumed to be an HTTP proxy that requires user
// authorization. The username and password will be sent to the proxy.
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http_pw,
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// route through a i2p SAM proxy
i2p_proxy
};
private:
std::vector<std::pair<boost::uint16_t, std::string> > m_strings;
std::vector<std::pair<boost::uint16_t, int> > m_ints;
std::vector<std::pair<boost::uint16_t, bool> > m_bools;
};
}
#endif