Ktorrent is eating all my cpu

[Jason Turning]

g wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> <snip>
>> Frankly, that's not a convincing explanation. Torrents are almost
>> entirely I/O bound, and this is a DSL connection rated at 2Mbps which in
>> fact is less than that in practice. No way could a torrent client be
>> eating 80% of a 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM. It's just not
>> reasonable.
> 
> i have dsl lite i=765kbps / o=133kbps. in having used both ktorrent in f8 and
> ctorrent in sl5.2, both used up to 85% cpu.
> 
> after watching graph in ktorrent, i disabled several sites that where being
> checked but showed little to no action and disabled file access in, which
> increased thru put from active sites. do not recall exact cpu change, but it
> was worth it.
> 
> with ctorrent, i again disabled file access which dropped cpu usage to below
> 70%.
> 
> have you tried setting nice?

You have a problem with your ktorrent/ctorrent installations. I've run ktorrent
on my Slackware box with several active torrents, and at most it took 6% of one
CPU. See my other post about rtorrent, which takes 1% or less with many more
torrents active. rtorrent is the client to use, but being CLI, you'll have to
memorize some of the keyboard commands to utilize it fully.

-- 
Jason Turning