hekate

Hekate, a highly-concurrent BitTorrent seeder

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Hekate

Hekate is a BitTorrent seeder (informally, a “BitTorrent server”, or software
for your “seedbox”) designed to handle millions of simultaneous torrents and
tens of thousands of simultaneously connected peers.

Hekate is written in CPC, an experimental concurrent dialect of C. In order to
build Hekate, you will need to install the CPC compiler first.

http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/hekate/

Checking out from repository

If you want to grab the latest development version:

git clone --recursive git://git.wifi.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/hekate

Note that you need the --recursive flag because of the dht submodule.
In case you forget it, you can check out (and update) submodules with:

git submodule update --init

There is also a github mirror:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/kerneis/hekate

Installation

To build Hekate, you need to install:

and run:

make

Known bugs and limitations

  • When listening() fails, trackers and dht continue to run whereas Hekate
    should leave.
  • Hekate uses mmap() for every file it serves, and never releases them. This
    means you need enough virtual memory to hold all your files; this might be an
    issue if you run Hekate on a 32-bit architecture.

Do not hesitate to report other bugs to the hekate-users mailing list:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hekate-users

Gabriel Kerneis [email protected]