Bittorrent - how to use on Linux?

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> So what side effects could I expect to see? On an AMD Duron 1 ghz box
> with 512 ram, should I expect to see any type of slowdown?
> 
> I once tried Java on a win98 box, P4 with 256 ram, and it became
> almost unusable, but that was a few years back. On the same machine I
> now have winXP and I think that I had Java in there on a previous
> install (I reinstall that os every few months...). I don't remember
> any issues with it under XP.
> 
no slow down

you may notice Java uses some memory but only if you are watching the processes