On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:33:16 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > 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 -- ssuds.sourceforge.net - Home of Ssuds and Ssudg, a Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
