Recommended Bittorrent client?

lyallp · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:59 am Post subject: Recommended Bittorrent client?

I am currently using Azureus, as my machine is dual boot to windows and it was easier to for me to resume uploading/downloading using a consistent application in both OS's.

I find I am not using the windows one any more, so now, I am looking for recommendations for Linux.

I use Fluxbox as my WM, I am not sure if that makes any difference to the choice.

I have a P4 2.8ghz, 2G machine, high resource usage is not a real problem although, I guess low cpu usage would save electricity.

I have a leaning towards KDE apps, as opposed to Gnome apps, but I can run either (and do).

I do have wine installed, but I think I would prefer to use a native Linux app.

I look forward to suggestions.
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makism · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 85

hm, i was using Azureus for some but i changed for transmission, because it light and suits my needs :p (one basic cool feature that transmission lacks, is the ability to add trackers :~( ).

MostAwesomeDude · Guru Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 373

rtorrent still beats everything else. Some people swear by uTorrent, although you'll need Wine for it. ktorrent is alright, but some people experience massive bugs. Azureus is awesome if you have the RAM and CPU for it; it's a beast.
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slackline · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:27 am Post subject:

Second transmission as a good option, its simple and lightweight, all I need from a torrent client.

lyallp · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject:

Tried rtorrent.
Seems ok, BUT

I have some torrents that I am seeding at the moment. Their files are spread around various directories, so, when I try loading the torrent files in .rtorrent, if the torrents files are not in the 'default dir', it promptly starts creating the files.

I can't symlink the files into the 'default' dir as the files exist on a FAT32 filesystem.

I want to be able to say 'load this torrent file and store its files here'.

Can I do that in rtorrent?
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Cyker · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 1746

ktorrent FTW!

abracadaver · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 125

Deluge is another option. It's like a lightweight Azureus (it's not based on Azureus at all, it just sort of "feels" like Azureus imo). It's also cross-platform in case you find yourself using Windows again. Also, you won't have to pull in a hundred Gnome or KDE dependencies either, so that's a plus. I highly recommend it.

micr0c0sm · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject:

tranmission / ktorrent

wish uTorrent was opensource that is one of my favorite programs.

GenKreton · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:40 am Post subject:

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lyallp · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject:

Well, tried rtorrent - could not figure out how to tell it where to download individual torrents, other than in it's default directory - rejected.
kTorrent - looks promising
deluge - also looks promising but I tried adding one of my seeds and it spits a bit with

stuorguk · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:06 pm Post subject:

I found both KTorrent & Deluge unreliable. Deluge was very buggy, regularly loosing my torrents, or crashing on startup.

I'm going to try Azureus again.

ocin · Guru Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 500

I'm using hrktorrent. Simplicity ftw.

Cyker · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 1746

lyallp · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:09 am Post subject:

I admit I do like the extra information available to me in Azureus although, in kTorrent, the time limit or ratio limit throttles I do like, and the in-built torrent search.
I will see how kTorrent goes after a week of uptime.
Nothing like being open minded to new or different ideas.
With regard to memory usage, etc, the same should apply to Azurues.
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Nick C · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:11 pm Post subject:

ive found qbittorrent to be very good, torrents come down as fast as with utorrent in windows, and is DE agnostic and looks and works just fine in gnome.
Its biggest downside (if you can call it that) is that its built with qt4 (but no KDE deps) so if you dont already have that installed expect a longer compile.
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stuorguk · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:24 am Post subject:

qBittorrent Looks really good. Thanks, I will look into that.

lyallp · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:58 am Post subject:

Subsequent evaluation of kTorrent shows that my concerns for memory and cpu where unfounded.
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pdr · l33t Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 618

I use screen and bittornado (it's curses client), but I don't seed files..

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lyallp · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:56 am Post subject:

Well, I have been using kTorrent for a while now.
Happy with it, in general.
The only problem I have with it is that if I add a new torrent, it 'hangs' whilst (I assume) it goes off and creates the data files.

I also note that if the files are large (or should I say, the sum of all the files in a torrent is large), it has an extremely adverse effect on my overall machine performance, causing all my apps to become extremely sluggish. I attribute this to my I/O system being completely overloaded.

Using azureus, I never noticed this 'I/O Overload'.

It's not as though I use a heavy GUI like KDE or Gnome (I use fluxbox), or my PC is that slow (it's only a 2.8Ghz P4 with hyperthreading, not Dual core) or I have low memory (2GB).

It's possible that part of the problem may be the fact that I download my files into a FAT32 filesystem, maybe I should experiment with using my other XFS filesystems (I don't trust ntfs-3g to work well enough at this stage).
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MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

torrentflux is the best one out there, using minimal amounts of ram, and run via browser, check it out.
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mwhitlock · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: ktorrent leaks memory

I don't care what the ktorrent developers say, ktorrent leaks memory. I've been running it for about 6 days now, and its VmRSS is over a gigabyte! (When the process was new, it was under 100 MB.) And this is with ktorrent's "Memory usage" option set to "Low"! Hah, that's laughable.

i92guboj · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject:

I just use mldonkey. It can handle torrents and lots of other p2p protocols, and it is not tied to kde or gnome. There are many interfaces for it, like kmldonkey, but you can also use the telnet or web frontends, which means you don't need to install a new client on each machine if you want to admin your p2p remotely.