It’s true; all the hardware advances have been eaten up by bloated, inefficient code. The worst is Windoze itself, and the Linux camp is falling over itself trying to out-bloat M$.

I’ve got a Pentium 100 box with Windows 3.1 installed, and zillions of games and such. You’ve never seen anything so fast. Windows takes 6 seconds to start after typing “win”.

Not only is Azureus a resource hog, but Bittorrent, regardless of what client you use, is a shameful bandwidth hog, with far more overhead than any other p2p protocol. That’s why I use eMule, which can be slower, but has less overhead than any other. Sometimes I even still use WinMX. (Yes, it still works, but it’s gone pretty feral.)

What would be a lot better than throttling would be a drivel detector which, if properly used, could eliminate 90% of bittorrent traffic which is mindless, fatuous crap.

Sounds like someone didn’t bother READING how to properly configure the application for his system.

Additionally expecting NEW software on OLD hardware to function as well as NEW software on NEW hardware is patently irrational. Upgrade your hardware or continue using OLD software.

azu resouces
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4719/azufinekj5.png

vs

firefox resources
http://i32.tinypic.com/w18plf.png

Azu, even Vuze, is delightful when properly CONFIGURED. it can even be configured to look oldschool:

http://i26.tinypic.com/2is8v0m.png

Plus I don’t have to tolerate crap clients or barely-sharing peers with azu. microTorrent only has IPA banning.

Failing to allow you to use what’s yours is a breach of contract.

When I pay for 20 mb/s I expect to be able to use 20 mb/s 24/7. If they don’t want anyone using 20 mb/s they shouldn’t offer it as an option.

I don’t give a rat’s a$$ how my usage of network resources affects anyone else on the network. MY contract is with the ISP, not with network members.

It’s up to the ISP to construct a network capable of servicing all network members, otherwise they’re also guilty of another kind of fraud.

But if the Isps are breaking the encryption on the torrent client, in order to get passed it, isnt that a violation of the DMCA?

can sum1 from australia with TPG ADSL2+ net, plz test it and upload the info to the azureus wiki.
i would like to c results

So What. Try launching additional applications while up/dwnloading then check that computer usage.

J.[/quote]
We are in the multi-core age with 2gb ram as the norm, 4gb is becomming the norm and 8gb kits are cheap as chips.
Your argument was valid in the p100 days.[/quote]
not really? its a torrent client, not crysis ;)

But beyond that Azureus is a kick ass torrent downloader and I have never had a problem with it.[/quote]

you can disable vuze! start azureus> options> interface> start> Display azureus UI chooser> Show> Classic interface. then restart azureus and viola! vuze interface wont load! :D

ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently has this turned into a political issue. The BitTorrent client Azureus has now developed a plugin through which you can help distinguishing the good from the bad ISPs, data th…

J.[/quote]
We are in the multi-core age with 2gb ram as the norm, 4gb is becomming the norm and 8gb kits are cheap as chips.
Your argument was valid in the p100 days.[/quote]
for what is a simple network transfer protocol, with error checking, why should it need a 2Ghz processor? 3 years ago, I was told by an az developerm that its reccomended system was half a gig of ram, and 2ghz processor. Solidworks 2004 didn’t have that high of an requirement, and thats a full-on parametric 3d CAD program.

It’s sloppy programming, and something that shouldn’t be encouraged. Here’s something you might find amusing – I have an old 8-bit computer i used to use for databases, running microsoft DRS, circa 1985. I had a dual p3-550 running win2k, and access, and the load times, and run times for both were similar for similar sets of data. With more ersources, people bog the code down with more crap, and slow things down. You end up with systems doing the stuff with modern software that 20yo computers did with 20yo software just as fast.

Coding standards have plummeted in recent years. Some of the worst, happens to be open source software, and its MO is the cause of it. Right now, Firefox having ahd one tab open for 6 hours, is using the same amount of ram as Opera which has had 30-50 tabs open over hte last 3 days (and which is remembering all the history for all the tabs i’ve closed as well)

Lets encourage better coding, rather than buying ever more hardware to deal with coders inadequacies.

Oh, and the machine I’m on – athlon 1Ghz with 384Mb ram. only thing it stumbles with, is badly coded software.

Kids and their toys. I have an ancient Celeron at 800Mhz with 512 RAM. Right now utorrent uploads at about 200 KB/s.

Memory usage is at 15.004K and CPU usage at 3%.

Bloatware remains bloatware.[/quote]

And that machine would still be capable of running Azures with ease. 3% of 3.2ghz is around 100mhz + 100mb comes well into those specks.

P.s. Dont try and argue with me on this one i used to run Azures on a similar spec machine untill i gave it away to someone so they could browse the net. What is it your using windows 98 SE ?.

I used to like Azureus before it went to VUZE. I dislike their new interface that is like a wannabe Joost. I prefer the old, sweet & simple interface of Azureus.

But beyond that Azureus is a kick ass torrent downloader and I have never had a problem with it.

J.[/quote]
We are in the multi-core age with 2gb ram as the norm, 4gb is becomming the norm and 8gb kits are cheap as chips.
Your argument was valid in the p100 days.[/quote]

As much as the technology has ramped, I have to agree that Azureus clogs my box a bit. And Java is a huge security risk. The ‘xploits for Java are legendary.

http://tinyurl.com/2d2vd2 (Google search for ‘Java exploits’.

This link is nothing someone else couldn’t find on their own, but if you don’t have to run Java, I wouldn’t suggest it. Not to mention the annoying Java Updates, cause the code is so manipulable it has to tended to like an AIDS case, constantly.

I admit the interface is feature-rich, but I prefer to wank to other things.

Kids and their toys. I have an ancient Celeron at 800Mhz with 512 RAM. Right now utorrent uploads at about 200 KB/s.

Memory usage is at 15.004K and CPU usage at 3%.

Bloatware remains bloatware.[/quote]

can u open jpg image with this wreckage?

Switch to uTorrent n00bs.
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u are right Azureus is for PROs, so all n00bs go use utorrent

Kids and their toys. I have an ancient Celeron at 800Mhz with 512 RAM. Right now utorrent uploads at about 200 KB/s.

Memory usage is at 15.004K and CPU usage at 3%.

Bloatware remains bloatware.

http://pluking.blogspot.com

Switch to uTorrent n00bs.

FUCK TORRENTLEECH!

Well I’m sorry, that’s not enough for me. If they really want to assure people of that, they better back it up with the code of the plugin, they should comment and lay out the code and say what does what, so the programmer who are using bittorrent can verify this claim.

I for one won’t be using this.

But I will use Azereus for a while considering it has this new add on. I am very interested to see.