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Old 2006-05-29, 04:38 PM
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Question Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

When the BitTorrent client stopped working with the new passkey system, I switched to Azureus. It has a ton of bells and whistles and I like it a lot. However, when I woke up this morning, my poor Mac Mini was freaking out. My local DSL network had crashed, and Azureus was using all of the available CPU power and it wanted more! I restarted my computer and DSL modem. I then restarted all of my torrents with BitTorrent, and they're running smoothly. I'm doing 50-60kB down and 60-75kB up and BitTorrent is only using 25-30% of my available CPU power as opposed to Azureus which was using 85%+. I've seen a few other complaints about Azureus for Mac. Is it just a resource hog, or are there some settings which can be changed to make it run a little more efficiently?
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Old 2006-05-29, 05:08 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

Its hardly the smoothest running program on a PC either.
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Old 2006-05-29, 05:26 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

serious cpu hog in my experience as well

if it wasn't for that I would probably choose it.

utorrent is much lighter
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Old 2006-05-29, 05:36 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

So what's utorrent like? I chose BitLord, and then Azureus more for the feel than anything else. I liked the fact that you can see it all in one place and the settings are so easy to use and understand.
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Old 2006-05-29, 05:52 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

utorrent is quite similar to Azureus, really. It has worked flawlessly for me for many months now.
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Old 2006-05-29, 06:15 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

I don't know about mac, but it's all about the configuration, configuration, configuration. Play with those bells and whistles, you'll see. I've been using Azureus for more than a year, some problems at first (noob), once I got it configured right, flawless, and doesn't slow me down much at all. It only hogs you if you let it. At any given time AZ. only uses 25-30% along with Opsys. I rarely dip into the red, CPU wise, unless if I'm doing something else resource intensive. But, then again I have plenty of power and Ram. Find out your connection speed and config. from there. I've tried bit comet, bit lord, bit tornado, a host of others and like AZ. the best. haven't tried Utorrent though, maybe it's better, I'll have to see. Hope it's of some help. E.
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Old 2006-05-29, 06:45 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

Hey I just got this quite concerning message within minutes of installing uTorrent.
If you know how to help, I'm gona start a thread for it, I'm quite scared.
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Old 2006-05-29, 06:58 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

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Old 2006-05-29, 07:02 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

some tips for making azureus more friendly:
http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/inde...e_memory_usage

disable everything you don't need, by default alot comes turn on that you don't need.
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Old 2006-05-29, 08:15 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

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So what's utorrent like? I chose BitLord, and then Azureus more for the feel than anything else. I liked the fact that you can see it all in one place and the settings are so easy to use and understand.
bitlord is banned at many trackers and has a bad reputation for reporting incorrect stats, hammering trackers and being generally buggy as hell.
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Old 2006-05-29, 08:40 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

Azureus is a resource hog because it's written in Java. You can run the same .jar file on any platform that has the Java Virtual Machine installed and it will run. It does not need to be recompiled for different platforms.

uTorrent is Windows only.
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Old 2006-05-29, 08:43 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

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bitlord is banned at many trackers and has a bad reputation for reporting incorrect stats, hammering trackers and being generally buggy as hell.
That's why I stopped using it
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Old 2006-05-29, 09:41 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

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Azureus is a resource hog because it's written in Java. You can run the same .jar file on any platform that has the Java Virtual Machine installed and it will run. It does not need to be recompiled for different platforms.

uTorrent is Windows only.
Thanks for the explaination. No wonder the Java poker game slowed down to a crawl last night. Oh well, Azureus was fun for a few days. I guess it'll be BitTorrent until something better comes along.
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Old 2006-05-30, 06:28 AM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

like uTorrent
Unless what I said last night put you off?
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Old 2006-06-02, 10:17 PM
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Re: Does Azureus have to be such a CPU hog?

I found that when I installed the latest Java on a Win XP machine that my CPU usage dropped substantially.

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