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# aquatic
Blazingly fast, multi-threaded BitTorrent tracker written in Rust.
Consists of separate executables:
* `aquatic_udp`: UDP BitTorrent tracker
* `aquatic_ws`: WebTorrent tracker (experimental)
Copyright (c) 2020 Joakim Frostegård
Distributed under Apache 2.0 license (details in `LICENSE` file.)
## aquatic_udp
Aims to implements the [UDP BitTorrent protocol](https://libtorrent.org/udp_tracker_protocol.html), except that it:
* Doesn't care about IP addresses sent in announce requests. The packet
source IP is always used.
* Doesn't track of the number of torrent downloads (0 is always sent).
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
### Installation and usage
Install rust with rustup, cmake with your package manager and clone the
repository. Then, compile and run `aquatic_udp`:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-udp.sh
```
To print default configuration as toml, pass the "-p" flag to the binary:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-udp.sh -p
```
Example output:
```toml
socket_workers = 1
request_workers = 1
[network]
address = '127.0.0.1:3000'
max_scrape_torrents = 255
max_response_peers = 255
peer_announce_interval = 900
socket_recv_buffer_size = 524288
poll_event_capacity = 4096
[handlers]
max_requests_per_iter = 10000
channel_recv_timeout_microseconds = 200
[statistics]
interval = 5
[cleaning]
interval = 30
max_peer_age = 1200
max_connection_age = 300
[privileges]
drop_privileges = false
chroot_path = '.'
user = 'nobody'
```
To adjust the settings, save this text to a file and make your changes. The
values you will most likely want to adjust are `socket_workers` (number of
threads reading from and writing to sockets) and `network.address`. (Some
documentation of the various options is available in source code file
`aquatic_udp/src/lib/config.rs`.) Then run aquatic with a "-c" argument
pointing to the file, e.g.:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-udp.sh -c "tmp/aquatic-udp.toml"
```
### Benchmarks
Performance was compared to [opentracker](http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/) using `aquatic_udp_load_test`.
Server responses per second, best result in bold:
| workers | aquatic | opentracker |
| ------- | ----------- | ----------- |
| 1 | n/a | __177k__ |
| 2 | __168k__ | 98k |
| 3 | __187k__ | 118k |
| 4 | __216k__ | 127k |
| 6 | __309k__ | 109k |
| 8 | __408k__ | 96k |
(See `documents/aquatic-load-test-2020-04-19.pdf` for details.)
## aquatic_ws
Experimental WebTorrent tracker.
Run `aquatic_ws`:
```sh
./scripts/run-aquatic-ws.sh
```
## Trivia
The tracker is called aquatic because it thrives under a torrent of bits ;-)