BitTorrent slowing down KDE

nrunge · 08-12-2004, 12:39 PM

Whenever I am downloading something from a BitTorrent link KDE seems to bog down quite a bit and my net connection seems pretty saturated regardless of the download speed. Is this normal?

Micro420 · 08-12-2004, 02:35 PM

no, that doesn't sound normal at all.

I run bittorrent via the console with NO gui. Works perfect and I am able to play my games with no slow down.

LinuxGeek · 08-12-2004, 06:05 PM

BitTorrent downloads shouldn't really affect your KDE session at all. What client are you using? If you use btdownloadcurses, it'll take 1 to 2% of your CPU. However, something like Azureus is much more resource-hungry. Also, although you might now be downloading, you might be uploading. If you don't put a max upload speed, you could find that your entire bandwidth is being used to upload. You should probably set your max upload speed to 30-50% of your bandwidth. So if your bandwidth is 30 k, you'd do something like:

Code:

btdownloadcurses --max_upload_rate 10 your_torrent_file_here

nrunge · 08-13-2004, 01:36 AM

Ill try the text based method. Currently I dont really know that I use. I just downloaded the bittorrent client debian package and when I click on a .torrent Firefox asks me if I want to open it up with "btdownloadgui". My programs seem to run fine but there is a lack of response when it comes to opening up menu's and windows resizing. Memory usage seems to increase a bit but nothing to terrible and processor utilization is minimum. But I dont need a gui for anything so Ill try CLI, thanks all.