Azureus is bogging down my system...annoying as hell.

[ManBearPig]

I have 1.5 gigs of RAM, so this shouldnt be a prob. Azureus takes my RAM usage up about 80MB, for a total RAM usage up to about 460-480.

The problem is, whenever i DL torrent, any torrents, for some reason it makes my internet sooooooooooooooo slow. It never used to be like this, but its so annoying. And the RAM stays elevated for a while after i close it. Ideas? Thanks...

 

[DanTMWTMP]

i thought all BT progs do this. It makes some sort of cache of the dl's. Raise your RAM buffer thing, use more RAM. Prevents thrashing of hdd's.
I think Azureus is the most hdd friendly, where as the other normal BT progs causes a ton of thrashing of your hdd. donno, I could be wrong. Just speculating based off of what I've read around and discussed w/ others.

And being a Java app doesn't help either hah. Maybe go w/ bitcomet, which, I believe doesn't use Java, so it uses a bit less RAM. But using more and more RAM for any BT prog is recommended.

i'm no CS dude, so I don't have a complete picture of what goes on prog/mem-wise.

 

[theMan]

download uTorrent.

 

[dighn]

internet slow? do you see/hear a lot of HD activity? with your amount of ram you shouldn't. my guess is that it's not a ram issue but rather the amount of connections BT uses is bogging down your connection. are you using a cheap router?

 

[ManBearPig]

Originally posted by: dighn
internet slow? do you see/hear a lot of HD activity? with your amount of ram you shouldn't. my guess is that it's not a ram issue but rather the amount of connections BT uses is bogging down your connection. are you using a cheap router?

Im using a router only as a firewall, with the port open for the connections in BT. I dont hear any HD activity really. Its wierd...

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Heen05

Originally posted by: dighn
internet slow? do you see/hear a lot of HD activity? with your amount of ram you shouldn't. my guess is that it's not a ram issue but rather the amount of connections BT uses is bogging down your connection. are you using a cheap router?

Im using a router only as a firewall, with the port open for the connections in BT. I dont hear any HD activity really. Its wierd...

if you have a lot of connections, your router might not be able to handle it. maybe try without the router (but enable a software firewall first)

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: theman
download uTorrent.

 

[Cheetah8799]

Originally posted by: theman
download uTorrent.

Yep. get uTorrent. Very similar to Azureus. I made the switch quite a while ago now, hardly any downtime for new setup.

 

[InfiniteLurker]

This doesn't have anything to do with which client he's using! You need to limit your UPSTREAM bandwidth usage to something other than unlimited, otherwise it'll saturate it, and your connection speed will go through the floor. Try limiting the upstream bandwidth and see how much better things get...

 

[theMan]

what is your upload bandwidth?? shouldnt go above 35kB/s if you have a 384kbps upload speed.

 

[duragezic]

Yes its your amount of connections bogging down your router and/or your upload speed needs a lower cap. As I seen posted before:

maxing your # of connections past the router's usable: slow internet, frequent lose of connection
too high of upload speed for your connection speed: slow internet

Depending if you're the sole user of your internet connection, but I generally set my upload speed to be about half of my max rated upload speed. Although my max rated speed is about 15k/s upload, I don't like to bog things down, and the max rated is ideally, so I be safe and set my upload cap to just 6k/s. THis is about the minimum to still get decent download speeds but not kill your internet (though I'm on a slow cable connection). As far as # of connections, I set uTorrent to 45 max global, with ~30 max peers. I'm nearly the sole user of the connection buts its very slow and I like to be able to browse still. So adjust these as you find fit, and depending on your router and connection you could be safe with 300+ global connections, and up to 85% of your rated upload speed (tho I don't recommend this just for SLIGHTLY faster torrent speeds).

 

[BW86]

Get utorrent and limit the upload bandwith to 6KB/sec. It's the lowest you can set it before utorrent caps your download speed. I was a long time Azureus user until a friend told me to get utorrent. I am never going back.

 

[itachi]

seriously, shut up with the whole "utorrent" crap. it's not an issue with the client.. so stop promoting.

 

[ivwshane]

LOl noobs helping noobs.

"Just format it worked for me"



Like a couple of the people here have said, reduce your global upload speed. When my upload was limited to 30KB I set my global upload speed to 5KB less than my max (so I set it to 25KB) and had minimal internet slow down, play with the setting to find something you can live with.






"I'm running a p2p program and now my internet is slow!"

That's a classic

 

[oog]

cap your upload rate to some level where your internet slowdown goes away

 

[ubercaffeinated]

i used to azureus too. the program is nice but java isn't. so i switched to utorrent.

 

[Injury]

It could be that whole thing where you are writing a bunch of data to your HD at the same time as you are trying to use it.



I guess you could go with the option to stop all the downloadin'

 

[Mavrick007]

The only time I've seen it slow down the internet was when it maxed out the cpu usage, but that was with the old ABC program I was using. Azureus seems to work fine.

If it's only using 80megs of RAM, don't worry, you have 1.5Gigs. I have 1Gig, I browse the internet fine, play games online, and this is all while torrents are downloading in the background at *unlimited* speed. Now I have a pretty fast connection so if your connection is not very fast, you might want to limit the download/upload speed so that it makes your browsing smoother.

 

[ManBearPig]

im going to be trying uTorrent. its pretty much the same. wierd that it doesnt have an install folder though.

 

[shortylickens]

http://slyck.com/bt.php?page=2
(May be not safe for work if your company is really anal.)

It would seem uTorrent is the most popular.
For reference, I got into Direct Connect a few years ago. Most recently I've been using Revconnect 0.674.

 

[ManBearPig]

so far so good....utorrent works well.

 

[doan]

Originally posted by: InfiniteLurker
This doesn't have anything to do with which client he's using! You need to limit your UPSTREAM bandwidth usage to something other than unlimited, otherwise it'll saturate it, and your connection speed will go through the floor. Try limiting the upstream bandwidth and see how much better things get...

yep

 

[secretanchitman]

get utorrent. somehow, whenever its downloading at any kbps, my internet goes veryyyyyyyyy slowwwwwwwwwwww. sometimes it doesnt even work! anyone else get this?