Re: Graphical bittorrent clients in etch
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:33:16 -0800
Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:
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> So recently I decided to see what else was out there when the Ubuntu lists
> had a similar question about clients. I went back to G3Torrent which, in its
> day, was a feature equivalent of Azureus but written in Python. I couldn't
> find the Linux version but did find a branch (also 2 years old) called Rufus
> which did run on Linux. Rufus on the same 2 torrents took up a grand total of
> 30Mb.
>
> It was old though and I wanted something a tad more modern.
> Deluge-torrent didn't work for me as I ran into the one and only show-stopper
> bug it has. It doesn't even start now. *sigh*
>
> So then I decided to think outside the linux box. I nabbed a copy of
> uTorrent as it is a close feature set to Azureus just written in C for
> Windows. Wine + uTorrent on the same 2 torrents... 10Mb.
>
> Now for the part that really kicks Java's head in. Azureus at nice 0
> would punch my box up to a load of 2. 1 for it and 1 for X keeping up with
> its updates. I set it to nice 5 and I get the load down to 1 and a
> semi-responsive box.
>
> Rufus in Python (wxWidgets as its GUI set)... load of mayyyybe 0.1 at nice 0.
>
> Wine + uTorrent... load of 0.01.
>
> I don't believe Azureus is poorly written because all the Java apps I have
> tried have the same metrics. Tons of RAM and CPU usage, vastly more than
> Python which is almost as ubiquitous.
>
> Anyway, the point of this long message is that if anyone else is reading
> and not liking the prospect of Azureus, give uTorrent + Wine a try. Maybe
> someone will pick up Rufus and run with it as it is on Sourceforge. It's way
> above my level of Python-fu or I'd give it a shot. But wine + utorrent = 200x
> less CPU usage and 30x less RAM usage. That's not chump change for people
> with smaller boxes. :)
I rather like rtorrent; I don't know what features you need, but it
seems to work well and seems to generate very little load.
Celejar
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