Comments on: How BitTorrent Clients Slow Down Windows

By: jacob

jacob — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:04:26 +0000

honestly, these stats are meaningless. the author does not address pc running performance while torrent clients are active or even network performance under load. he doesnt address ram usage or cpu utilization either. if this was put together by a 8 year old, then Good Work! if not, this should be unpublished and buried.

By: Dieter Schmitz

Dieter Schmitz — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:38:12 +0000

Nice comparison. I don't think it makes much sense to compare start-up times of the programs though. Everyones computer will be on most times anyways. More important is how many resources the the torrent client occupies when for example downloading a motorcycle stunts movie. I tried several and the client with the least resource usage was uTorrent and barely has any weight.

By: hubz

hubz — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:10:51 +0000

Am I missing the point here. Who cares about start up time. That is insignificant compared to overall download performance. What are the stats for that?

These figures are meaningless.

By: DakE_FeatH

DakE_FeatH — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:17:11 +0000

uTorrent is by far my favourite of all the BitTorent clients out there. Small, fast and reliable.

By: soundguytroy

soundguytroy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:28:28 +0000

I’ve been using utorrent successfully for months but in the last week I have to shut it off in order to get online.
any help or ideas would be appreciated.
Thanx

By: davis

davis — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:00:13 +0000

uTorrent is fast easy to use and uses way less resources than the others I have tried most & on my system its the only one that works well

By: Knight17

Knight17 — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:28:15 +0000

Azureus sucks because it is coded in Java.I hate applications coded in Java.ÂµTorrent Rocks, it is the best torrent client out there.

By: Oli

Oli — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:38:11 +0000

The times you see for BT clients DO NOT include their load with windows. These times are purely the effect of their install and 1 run.

Only messenger and security software were measured based on their startup time with windows because that is deemed as “typical usage”

By: David Kaspar

David Kaspar — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:23:00 +0000

I don’t see how affecting the boot time of 1.78% vs 4.44% is relevant when, just like you say, NIS causes a nearly 60% slow down.

A BitTorrent client does not have to be started together with Windows while AV has to.

Wonder how they achieved such a small margin of error that justifies 4 significant digits. I recently tried to benchmark my old amd64 3500 vs a new amd64 x2 4800 and had a hard time achieving 2 significant digits :-)

By: Smaran

Smaran — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:25:49 +0000

It’s the same on the Mac. Azureus is the fattest bugger on the block. Sadly, he’s also the smartest and most talented of them all. Can’t wait till the slim genius, Xtorrent moves in.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:22:18 +0000

true, true. I am a tried and tested open source/freeware user, for obvious reasons. and when they’re fast as well, it’s just an added bonus. For windows users, go to getpaint.net for a fast, open source image editing app that’s really full-featured.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:56:18 +0000

Wow, not only was utorrent the fastes loading bittorrent client, it was also the fastest loading out of all the programs tested–that’s impressive. For common compression apps 7-zip came out the fastest which makes me even more happy I am using it. Small apps are great when your comp has limited RAM.