http://www.notmyblog.com/2005/08/14/my-new-toy/ A boy, his blog, and a whole lot of nothing... Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:39:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.notmyblog.com/2005/08/14/my-new-toy/#comment-182 not my blog » My Bittorrent Switch Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:41:59 +0000 http://www.notmyblog.com/?p=19#comment-182 [...] So for the past six months or so I’ve been using Azureus as my faithful Bittorrent client. Very nicely done program, good interface, lots of features. But, it is an amazing resource hog as it is a Java based application and can cause the Java runtime environment to reach nearly 200MB in memory usage. My machine has no problems handling the load, as it is a Dual Core CPU with 1GB RAM and RAID 0 SATA Drives, but this is just really more than I am willing to give up just for sharing some files. I’ve spent lots of time perfecting my Bittorrent configuration and have things working beautifully, but I finally decided to switch to a new client that is less resource intensive. [...] [...] So for the past six months or so I’ve been using Azureus as my faithful Bittorrent client. Very nicely done program, good interface, lots of features. But, it is an amazing resource hog as it is a Java based application and can cause the Java runtime environment to reach nearly 200MB in memory usage. My machine has no problems handling the load, as it is a Dual Core CPU with 1GB RAM and RAID 0 SATA Drives, but this is just really more than I am willing to give up just for sharing some files. I’ve spent lots of time perfecting my Bittorrent configuration and have things working beautifully, but I finally decided to switch to a new client that is less resource intensive. [...]

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