[sclug] Azureus (was: Dell desktop for 175GBP...)

[Spiros Kapetanakis]

On 27/10/05, Alan Pope <alan.pope at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27/10/05, John Stumbles <john at stumbles.org.uk> wrote:
> > Matt wrote:
> >
> > > Azureus sucks on everything I've tried to run it on, it's far more
> > > unusable than anything realistically should be running on my SMP MP2800+
> > > system.
> >
> > I like the way you can set a maximum bandwidth so it doesn't clobber
> > your network connection, and it'll use the remainder of the b/w you've
> > allocated on another download if the current one is going at less than
> > the allocated rate. I just wish it wouldn't use up so much memory.
> >
> > Is there anything else that will do this more economically (for Linux,
> > natch)
> >
>
> btdownloadcurses --max_upload_rate
>
> and
>
> btlaunchmanycurses with the same parameter are what I use to download.
> Azureus is just too much of a memory and CPU hog - even on this 2GB
> RAM laptop, I wont run it. the curses interfaced bit torrent clients
> have the benefit that you can run them in a screen on another machine,
> close screen and leave them running.

I use the default gnome bittorrent client which allows to cap the
number of connextions from other users and the total bandwidth used in
upload. While it doesn't have a setting for capping the download, if
you limit the upload rate, you'll find that the protocol is such that
your download does the same.

Oh, there is an option for not displaying error messages which is very handy.


Spiros