Torrent client suggestions

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 6/30/06, Roo <oscosc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:28:49 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
> > Can anyone suggest a good torrent client? I use Fedora Core 5. The the
> > python Bittorrent is fast and light, but gives me corrupted video files
> > when its done. Azerus give me perfect files, but it sucks the life out
> > of dev/testing box to the point where the display takes minutes to
> > wakeup after it goes to sleep from lack of use.
> >
> > Suggestions of something inbetween would be nice.
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> Azureus is your typical Java RAM hogger. It's a nice client with lots of
> good plugins (and really good ones are in short supply on Linux), but it
> just horrible for RAM.
>
> The only way I've found to make it tolerable (just) on my 512Mb machine is
> to set it up the way I like it using the GUI first:
>
> 1. autoscan a directory and autoimport any torrent files found there.
>
> 2. Set up firefox to save torrent files in that directory
>
> 3. Set up the RSS feed plugin to autodownload stuff I want, when it
> appears.
>
> 4. Run Azureus headless: java -jar azureusjarfile.jar --ui=console
>
> That makes it bearable... but dear lord... someone somewhere needs to slap
> some sense in the Java designers.

Well it works 10 fold better now on my 800 MHz and 256MB of ram spare
machine. Gcj seemed to have some issues.

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