Comments on: Halite, a Fast and Lightweight BitTorrent Client

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:53:21 +0000

Aug 01, 2008 at 19:22 by Anonymous

then you probably run it in default setup with the local peer discovery active and unlimited local peer bandwith exchange that it trashed your LAN.

And when you have run the setup wizard at first start and choose the correct value for your bandwith it will not take over all your bandwith.
Oh, and ÂµT gives fairly exact control how much bandwith to use. You must enter the value’s you want.

Pebkac is not the programs fault!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:22:15 +0000

For those who like uTorrent, I tried it and it ATE my system resources, plus, it kept shutting down my LAN! As far as I am concerned, uTorrent is junk! I am looking for something that will NOT trash my LAN by taking over ALL the bandwidth without giving ME some control. I would rather wait a few extra minutes or even hours than cut my kids off in the middle of a dungeon – THAT is just RUDE.

By: war59312

war59312 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:21:24 +0000

Utorrent uses 4,564k of memory on average. Not 10,000k!

By: elgnub

elgnub — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:08:17 +0000

utorrent till i die!! =P

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:38:59 +0000

so is that mineral client able to run so nicely selfcontained in one dir only like Âµt can do from a USB stick for example, or does it spill some files all over the system no matter what?

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:27:42 +0000

Hmm i’m going to have to try this later.

By: jimbo 222

jimbo 222 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:12:29 +0000

im gonna get this just cuz of the irish connection, hope the sites i use have no compatability issues.

however from the exploits of utorrent 1.6 id rather leave alone for a week or two…..

big up eoin o callaghan

By: Apocrypha

Apocrypha — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:45:11 +0000

I’ve used Halite quite abit, and of course it’s great that this stuff comes out especially as it’s open-source. From what I can tell from all my use of it is that it’s not so resource friendly as first thought, I’ve seen Halite use about 30Mb of RAM, plus I love the Auto Shutdown feature of uTorrent, something Halite lacks. So I’ve decided to start using uTorrent 1.6 Build 474 (this being the last release before uTorrent was bought out).

But I do applaud Halite for filling a gap which was once filled, but I just don’t see (at the moment) why anyone would use this over uTorrent 1.6 Build 474.

By: Amarnath Wanchoo

Amarnath Wanchoo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:44:09 +0000

The latest version 1.7.7 of uTorrent (214 Kb only in size) works perfectly and better than 1.61. To me there seems no reason to keep using version 1.61.

That said, I downloaded Halite 0.3.1 (2.47 megs)and tried it. It is very good indeed but I find that uTorrent is still the numero uno.

By: Bacon

Bacon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:10:42 +0000

Ummm, is that really the whole article? Which platforms does this client run on?

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:28:55 +0000

Cool. I’ve been a big uTorrent fan, but I’ll give Halite a try. I’m using it right now and so far so good. Perhaps not as polished as uTorrent, but the important features seem to be there.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:16:27 +0000

@50 – Too bad theres no Windows version :(

@52 – Do you plan opn putting it on a floppy or something?

2.9MB isnt that big and installed it only goes to about 4MB, still small. Besides, Id be more concerned about memory usage, and Halite does well at that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:18:56 +0000

> “Maybe if you’re gonna blog about software you should mention somewhere what operating system is needed to run it? I had to go hunting just to find out it was another lazy-ass windows-only project.”

I agree. I thought it was also for Linux.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:10:53 +0000

QQ moar, penguin

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:05:09 +0000

Maybe if you’re gonna blog about software you should mention somewhere what operating system is needed to run it? I had to go hunting just to find out it was another lazy-ass windows-only project.

By: butz

butz — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:59:31 +0000

Halite 2.9MB
uTorrent 214KB
Which one is smaller?

By: stupid

stupid — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:41:35 +0000

People who report things are faster and just noobs fooling themselves.

Noobs that speak out are anoying, stfu.

By: transmission

transmission — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:52:00 +0000

Even better: Transmission [transmission.m0k.org]

By: Viper007Bond

Viper007Bond — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:26:11 +0000

About uTorrent’s RAM usage — did you make sure to exclude/disable RAM caching?

My copy of uTorrent is currently using 248MB of RAM as I have a forced cache size of 256MB + it setup to not dump old pieces. This is to reduce my hard drive wear as much as possible.

Heck, on my seedbox I have a cache size of 750MB so that I can cache a whole TV show into RAM and seed without a single HD read (once it’s all cached). After a few hours of seeding at 100mbit, I have around 5 million hits to the cache and a couple hundred to the hard drive (as the file was initially read into RAM).

For this reason alone, I wouldn’t recommend Halite (yet). Looks promising, but disk caching is just such a must IMO.

By: Ninja

Ninja — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:44:04 +0000

“torrentfreak test lab”? Wtf? You have a test lab now? With white coats an shit? And here i thought this site was run by one person, silly me.