mehul wrote:
Hi sanket. My problem has been that azureus isn't giving me good speeds + it hogs up my 256 mb of RAM. I am using it at present but I wanna give others a try cos of this problem. I'd like to use GUI client better but at the present best I got is GUI BitTornado. It opens up separate windows for each torrent. But, atleast it's giving me better speeds than azureus. Dunno what's the matter with my machine. All others seem to be getting around 20-22 kbps on their 256 kbps connection but most i seem to get from bittorrent is 15-16 kbps
Azureus is a big memory eater! Plus its Java based, which I hate. But I still use Azureus, because I have ample RAM available and it does have some good features. Recently, I found ktorrent. I just installed it on my Gentoo yesterday, haven't used it yet though. It has some of the features Azureus provides. You might want to give it a try.
As for Azureus, it wastes a lot of bandwidth with the distributed tracking and stuff... I find 20-30 MB extra downloaded by Azureus for its "protocol"! Maybe that's one reason it doesn't give you the full speed.
Regards, Mrugesh