bittorrent/azureus performance

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

Anyone who's used em both, which has the best cpu performance?

I run it on my server now, which is rather slow, and normal bittorrent (btlaunchmanycurses) uses about 20% cpu resources constantly.

I was thinking maybe, just maybe I'd be better off with nxserver+azureus, also, if the performance would be atleast close to similar the added queue'ing abilities sure would be nice.

chunderbunny · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:43 am Post subject:

I would imagine that Azureus would use much more RAM that btlaunchmanycurses.py, I'm not sure about processor usage though. I do know however, that btlaunchmanycurses on my 600MHz C3 processor uses 0.1% of the processor, so either you have a really slow computer or something funny is going on.

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

it's downloading to an encrypted drive

, and memory that server has enough of... I just might have to try this.

KH · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 26 Location: Canada

I've found that Azureus is less CPU intensive - suspect that the main reason that it's so is because it's default file allocation is better (from a CPU rather than fragmentation perspective), and even an option to pre-allocate the whole file prior to download (less CPU and NO fragmentation). BT allocates disk space linearly but downloads randomly so it is constantly reorganizing the files on disk. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong....

The main reasons to use Azuereus are UDP tracker info, no-rehash resume, better torrent/seed management, on-the-fly capping .... and of course pretty graphs!